Following the “Agro-Ecological – Biodiversity – Climate – Balkans” project and the encounters of Skopje, we started this summer the Agro-Ecological Territories for Climate Action. This action is carrying out with Climate Awareness Association (CAA) in Kosovo and Zeleno Doba (Center for Sustainable Growth and Development Green Age) in Serbia.
Our objectives are (i) to animate the ABC – Balkans plateform, the Regional network, by continuing the virtual seminar, (ii) to build and test a climate/biodiversity awareness training for “territorial mediators” relevant for each territory, (iii) to run the climate/ biodiversity awareness training for Agroecology territories in the 6 Western Balkan countries.
CAA will manage the training in Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia, and Zeleno Doba in Serbia, Bosnia-and-Herzegovina and Montenegro. This climate/biodiversity tool will be in open access, and the aim is for territorial mediators to appropriate it and could spread it widely in the agro-ecological territories of the Balkans.
Agroecology Territories for Climate Action in Western Balkan Candidates Countries.
Climate change (CC) and biodiversity loss (BD) are bundled issues and one of the major problem of the environmental global challenge is to deal with both at the same time. This only can be done at the level of specific territories, that includes management of natural resources and agrifood systems, generally within common institutional framework. The objective of this action was, in the six candidate Western Balkan Countries, to identify and network actors in a position to carry agri-environmental alternatives strategies, dealing the CC/BD nexus both analytically and situationally. The six national cases were investigated through a collective discussion toward a common vision with a regional Balkan scope and in the framework of the processes of accession to the European Union. It was therefore a question of building a space for discussion and coordination to define for the Balkan region an integration path adapted to the European Green Deal and in particular its “Farm to Fork” and “Biodiversity” dimensions.
International Association for the Development of Agro-Environment
