(AGENPARL) – gio 15 giugno 2023 Programme
Session 1 (in Italian) – Impegno della società civile e delle amministrazioni locali per
la tutela delle risorse suolo/acqua dal contesto locale a quello internazionale
9:30 Apertura iscrizioni
10:00 Saluti istituzionali (Quirico Migheli, Vicedirettore Dipartimento di Agraria e
Direttore NRD, Università degli Studi di Sassari)
10:15 Progetto “I CARE SOIL” Valorizzazione del ruolo dei cittadini nella promozione
delle buone pratiche per la tutela del suolo. Esperienza di Citizen Science sulla tutela del
suolo (Matteo Garau, Università degli Studi di Sassari)
10:30 Progetto “E.WA.S.” Soluzioni per l’ambiente e per l’acqua (Sara Porru, Comune
di Nuoro)
10:45 Progetto “FLUOROSI” Applicazione di metodi innovativi e analisi socioeconomiche per la potabilizzazione delle acque naturali dell’Africa Orientale (Alfredo
Idini, Università degli Studi di Sassari)
11:00 Progetto “TERRA” Impiego di tecnologie ecosostenibili per il riutilizzo dei residui
organici nella filiera agricola (Maria Vittoria Pinna, Università degli Studi di Sassari)
11:15
TOWARDS WORLD
DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT DAY
The Desertification and Drought Day (DD-day 2023), established in 1994
by the United Nations every 17 June, aims to promote public awareness of
international efforts to combat desertification and loss of soil fertility.
Her Land.
Her Rights.
Desertification and Drought Day 2023
Coffee break
Session 2 (in English) International Webinar: “The power of cocoa: valorization of
cocoa residues for the social and environmental sustainability of cocoa”
11:45 VARCOR Project “Vermitechnology application for valorization and reuse of
cocoa residues” (Matteo Garau, University of Sassari, Italy)
11:55
Social and productive system of cocoa in Ghana (Laura Atuah, Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Ghana)
12:05 Development of sustainable methods to reuse cocoa residues (Benjamin Afful/
Patick Enchill, KNUST, Ghana)
12:15 Innovative amendments for cocoa nursing, productive and social application
(Samuel Twum/Patick Enchill, KNUST, Ghana)
12:25 Cocoa environmental impact: consideration and future perspectives (Michael
Osei, KNUST)
12:35 Which is your choice? Open discussion on sustainable consumer choices
(Dadson Awunyo-Vitor, KNUST, Ghana)
FRIDAY 16 JUNE 2023
“Aula Barbieri”, Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari
Viale Italia 39/A, Sassari (Italia)
12:45 Light lunch
Session 3 (in English) – International Webinar: “Her Land. Her rights: a science-civil
society dialogue on women’s efforts for drought and desertification challenges”
14:00 Introduction: Mauro Centritto, CNR-IPSP, Italy
14:10 Meron Tefera, University of Sassari, Italy: Linking gender roles, gender equality
and sustainable soil and water management: EWA-BELT Project”
14:20 Roula Kadra, CIHEAM, Italy: “Regional Cooperation to accelerate the change:
Living labs for a sustainable reuse of Non Conventional Water in agriculture (MENAWARA
Project)”
14:30 Raffaella Balestrini, CNR-IPSP, Italy: “Living labs and biobased technologies to
promote agroecological approaches” (SALAM MED Project)
14:40 María José Marqués, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain: “Research on
cover crops for soil health and climate change adaptation in semiarid vineyards and
olive groves”
14:50 Samia Qadeer, Alamma Iqbal Open University Islamabad Pakistan: “Enhancing
women access to land resources to increase drought resilience in different ecological
zones”
15:00 Katarzyna E. Negacz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands: “Salinity
and women: stories from salt-affected soils”
15:10 Natalia Martínez Tagüeña, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y
Tecnológica and Gabriela Molina Moreno, Comunidad Comcaac, México: “Community
science and traditional ecological knowledge: Comcaac women defending their land in
Sonora, México”
15:20 Olivia Sylvester, Environment and Development Department, University
for Peace, Costa Rica: “Land degradation and desertification and their role in human
mobility” (recorded video)
15:30 Round table (chair: Anna Luise, ISPRA – UNCCD Scientific-technical Correspondent)
Participants: Asia Khalil (We World GVC, Palestine), Giovanna Seddaiu (University
of Sassari, Italy), Gabriela Molina Moreno (Comunidad Comcaac, México), Cécile
Harmonie Otoidobiga (Université Norbert Zongo, Burkina Faso)
16:00 Conclusions
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