Tag: rural development
Challenges to community forest research in northwest Mediterranean Europe
Does our research make a difference for forests, rural areas and communities? This is what we asked ourselves when we saw the announcement of...
Innovation inspiration at a SIMRA workshop in Solsona
Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) is a European project focused on research and innovation actions. FORECO, one of the 26 partners in...
Facing Forest Fires: Visions and actions for global fire-resilient landscapes
Fire starts
with a spark. Once ignited it can flourish, fed and spread by fuel and oxygen, the
flames and smoke fanned great distances by the...
SIMRA’s October sessions: Lessons learned from the project innovation actions
On 7 and 8 October EFIMED organised two workshops in the province of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) to close the Innovative Action that EFI leads...
Retro-innovation working for wildfire prevention: Shepherds’ contracts to reduce biomass and...
Innovative contracts are providing extra income and social recognition for shepherds working to reduce forest fire risk. These indicator-based contracts, as well as policy...
Social innovation in the spotlight: Special Issue of Forest, Policy and...
This Special Issue, largely a product of the H2020 Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) project and its Thematic Session organised at the...
Pests, diseases and climate change impact on chestnut and pine nut...
An interregional workshop on "Wild harvested nuts and berries in time of new pests, diseases and climate change", brought together stakeholders from Spain, Portugal,...
Chestnut orchards: an opportunity for rural development
Producers, companies, public and private owners, and other actors in the chesnut value chain, are invited to participate in this Science to Practice event...
New territory for non-wood forest products through INCREDIBLE cross-cutting initiative
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) have
considerable potential to play a role in nature-based tourism, generating
income especially in inland and rural areas in the Mediterranean. The...
Social innovation in forests: buzzword or opportunity?
This article is also published on the SIMRA blog.
What is social innovation? Over the last decades, social innovation has gained significant popularity as a...
New paper! Indicating the value of cork
"It is urgent to value our native forest and its non-wood forest products, where cork oak and cork have a special place!" - Joana...
