TERRE & HUMANISME
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt & Palestine
DESCRIPTION
DISSEMINATION OF AGROECOLOGY IN THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN – COMPLETED
The purpose of this project is to contribute to the food sovereignty of countries in the Mediterranean basin by promoting a sustainable peasant and family agriculture which preserves the environment, values the farming profession, contributes to climate-change resilience and responds to the consumption needs of the local population.
The three specific objectives are:
– Supporting trainers and local associations in their activities of raising awareness and providing agroecology transition training to local communities
– Reinforcing the technical and educational capacities of the trainers
– Stimulating an exchange and experience-sharing network Terre & Humanisme was created in 1994 and contributes to the dissemination of the scientific knowledge of agroecology techniques in France as well as abroad.
The project beneficiaries will be 12 rural trainers, 7 local partner structures and their members, 600 farmers and 1,500 people such as other farmers, students, associations, and consumers, as well as various national promoters of agroecology (associations, universities, institutions)
IMPACT / MAIN INDICATORS
• Appropriation of agroecology techniques by local farmers
• Sharing agroecology experience among farmers and raising awareness of civil society
• Improvement of the trainers’ skills
LOCAL
PARTNER
Selection
Duration
Project selected in September 2020
Multi-year project: 3 years
Financed
by
The Comgest Foundation
COMMENT FROM THE AMBASSADOR
Yann Gérain
In 2022, a new project manager joined Terre & Humanisme to lead the programme. Thanks to the end of the Covid-related restrictions, she was able to visit the local projects in Morocco twice in March and June 2022. She also made an onsite visit to Lebanon in November to monitor local actions.
Awareness-raising, training and support activities continued to be carried out by the facilitators locally. Since the beginning of the programme, 586 people have been trained on agroecology techniques, and 196 famers have been supported. Over 6,300 people, including farmers, students, and consumers have been made aware of agroecology. Now, Terre & Humanisme supports 15 reference farms located in the areas of intervention of the partner associations.
They serve as a model, supporting the dissemination of agroecology. 66 monitoring-supporting visits were carried out in 2022. In May 2023, Terre & Humanisme intends to organise a conference in Egypt with the agroecology trainers of the Mediterranean programme. The agroecology network in Arabic countries continues to expand, and new farmers from Lebanon, Iraq and Syria will be invited to the event. Despite all the efforts made by T&H and local teams, the achievement of the 3-year project will be delayed to mid-2024, instead of Q4-2023 as planned initially