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ResAlliance: increasing landscape resilience in the Mediterranean by involving farmers and foresters

  • 2022 2025
  • ResAlliance: increasing landscape resilience in the Mediterranean by involving farmers and foresters
  • Responsible management
  • CyprusGermanyGreeceItalyLebanonPortugalSpainTunisia
  • European Commission

  • EFI (SPAIN),

    FUNDACIO D’ECOLOGIA DEL FOC I GESTIO D’INCENDIS PAU COSTA ALCUBIERRE (SPAIN),

    CONSORCI CENTRE DE CIENCIA I TECNOLOGIA FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA (SPAIN),

    INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES (SPAIN),

    ELLINIKIS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS – DIMITRA (CYPRUS),

    ETIFOR (ITALY),

    D.R.E.AM. ITALIA (ITALIA),

    AGENZIA FORESTALE PER LO SVILUPPO DEL TERRITORIO E DELL’AMBIENTE DELLA SARDEGNA (ITALY),

    CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH (GERMANY),

    INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA (PORTUGAL),

    JOUZOUR LOUBNAN ASSOCIATION (LEBANON),

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES EN GENIE RURAL, EUAX ET FORESTS (TUNISIA),

    MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA (GREECE),

    FEDERATION EUROPEENNE D’AGROFORESTERIE ASSOCIATION (FRANCE),

    INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE (IUCN)

     

In face of increasing extreme weather events brought by climate change, ResAlliance aims at facilitating knowledge and good practices exchange to increase farmers’ and foresters’ capacity on landscape resilience.

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The ResAlliance project focuses on four main themes: landscape governance, land management, finance and technology.

LIFE ClimatePositive: promoting partnership for better forest management

  • 2022

The LIFE ClimatePositive project wants to promote SMART associations and innovative financing for responsible forest management and the enhancement of carbon sinks. The aim is to help small forest managers in finding financing for their activities.

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Promoting SMART partnerships and innovative financing for responsible forest management and the strengthening of carbon sinks

Luxottica and the restoration of the forests damaged by Vaia

  • 2020

In 2020 Luxottica decides to embark on a journey to reduce its emissions and improve its impacts, while restoring the forests around Agordo affected by the storm Vaia. With the goal of restoring an area of more than 30 hectares, this project is the largest forest restoration project funded by a private company in the areas affected by Vaia.

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The Agordo-based company embarks on a project to improve its impacts and contribute to the recovery of the territory after the storm

Multidisciplinary project development for new urban forests in the Metropolitan City of Venice

  • 2021
  • Multidisciplinary project development for new urban forests in the Metropolitan City of Venice
  • Sustainable investments
  • Municipalities of Venice, San Donà di Piave and Concordia Sagittaria, Metropolitan City of Venice

Coordination of a multidisciplinary team for the development of two new urban forests creation projects in different areas of the Metropolitan City of Venice. The projects were successfully presented to a call for funding of the Italian Ministry of Environment’s Climate Decree.

Promoting a new approach to Urban Forestry in Europe

  • 2021 2023
  • Promoting a new approach to Urban Forestry in Europe
  • Sustainable investments
  • ItalyRomaniaIrelandNetherlandsSwedenSpain
  • European Commission

  • Ersaf,
    Polimi,
    Etifor | Valuing Nature,
    EFI,
    UAB,
    Creaf,
    Agresta,
    Unitbv,
    Forest Design Srl,
    Trinity College Dublin,
    Nbsi,
    Green City Watch

The project aims at promoting Europe’s innovation capacity among universities, cities and businesses to deliver a new approach to Urban Forestry.

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Uforest: a project involving Italy, Spain, Romania, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden

Bosco Limite, outdoor nature

  • 2013 present

Creation of a new forest for groundwater recharging. Etifor designed the payment schemes for the water-services, recreational services for local population, biodiversity and carbon reduction. Find out more on Boscolimite.it

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Discover how the largest infiltration forest area in the Veneto region was created

FSC Smallholder forest certification

  • 2017
  • FSC Smallholder forest certification
  • Responsible management, Sustainable investments
  • Germany
  • FSC® International

The FSC certification scheme has been always sensible to the involvement of smallholders. The FSC Smallholders Fund aims to economically sustain smallholders to achieve the FSC certification. The Fund was promoted through two calls 2013 and 2015 that involved 41 beneficiaries. Etifor performed an impact assessment of this initiative, to understand its efficiency and effectiveness

Huong Son Nature

  • 2018

Huong Son Nature is the first Vietnamese forest regeneration project that fight climate change, loss of biodiversity and poverty through activities of forest protection, trees planting and development of market for wild forest products. The project originated from the results of the UN GEF (Global Environmental Facility) funded ForCES project powered by the Forest Stewardship Council®.

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Vietnam, land of opportunities

Alternative models and robust decision-making for future forest management

  • 2016 2020

The ALTERFOR project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, has the task of reviewing existing forest management models (FMMs) and the ways to optimize them. We are actively involved in the stakeholder engagement and in the identification of legally, technically and economically viable systems to implement alternative forest management models.

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The ALTERFOR project has the task of reviewing existing forest management models and much more

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