Author: Matteo Gabaglio
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ResAlliance: Three years of building landscape resilience across the Mediterranean
After three years of collaboration, knowledge exchange, and on-the-ground action, the ResAlliance project concludes its mission to strengthen landscape resilience in Mediterranean agriculture and forestry. Bringing together practitioners, researchers, public authorities, and local communities, the project has created a lasting network that will continue to support climate-resilient land management long after the project’s end. LandLabs:…
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Turning local resilience solutions into lasting Mediterranean policy action
Building Mediterranean landscape resilience requires moving from project-level innovation to structural integration within EU and national policy frameworks. The ResAlliance project offers timely input for upcoming CAP and Green Deal updates through locally tested solutions. The starting point for ResAlliance was to collect local know-how from farmers and foresters and understand their barriers to create a higher landscape resilience. From there, the project focused on lifting these locally grounded insights into concrete policy…
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ResAlliance policy forum highlights key strategies for a resilient Mediterranean landscape
A high-level gathering for Mediterranean landscape resilience In November 2025, ResAlliance brought together policymakers, researchers, farmers, foresters and experts from across the Mediterranean for its final policy forum, marking a major milestone in the project’s efforts to advance climate-resilient landscape management. The event, attended by around 90 participants from 31 countries, was organized in collaboration…
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ResAlliance showcases Europe’s top innovative practices boosting landscape resilience
A Three-Year effort to strengthen Europe’s landscape resilience The ResAlliance project has spent three years (2022–2025) building a strong network of more than 2,000 practitioners, scientists and stakeholders from the agriculture and forestry sectors. This community—known as LandNet—shares a common goal: improving landscape resilience in the face of increasing climate-change impacts. In parallel, project partners…
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Enhancing Mediterranean landscape resilience through shared knowledge, collaboration and innovation
ResAlliance is building bridges across the Mediterranean – connecting people, sharing knowledge, and combining traditional and modern practices to enhance the resilience of our landscapes to climate change. Over the past year, the ResAlliance project has been building up collaboration across the Mediterranean, bringing together individuals committed to protecting forests, agricultural lands and rural landscapes.…
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Towards a 2030 roadmap for wildfire-resilient landscapes in Sardinia
Defining a shared 2030 Roadmap for fire-resilient landscapes in Sardinia (Italy) – one of the most fire-prone areas of Southern Europe and a hub for EU-funded research and innovation projects on wildfires – is no small task. This challenge brought together professionals, researchers, NGOs, innovators and regional government agencies in Porto Conte (Sardinia), within the…
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ResAlliance final Policy Forum-enhancing resilience in Mediterranean landscapes
The ResAlliance consortium is pleased to invite policymakers, public authorities, researchers, and stakeholders from across the Mediterranean to the Final Policy Forum. This high-level forum marks the culmination of three years of collaborative work to strengthen resilience in Mediterranean landscapes. It will highlight practical, field-tested solutions and explore how they can be translated into concrete…
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ResAlliance and FOREST4EU Joint Final Event in Vinkovci, Croatia (12–13 November 2025)
ResAlliance is pleased to announce that, together with the FOREST4EU project, we will host a joint final event in Vinkovci, Croatia, on 12–13 November 2025. This two-day, in-person gathering will provide a unique opportunity to explore the future of Europe’s forests and landscapes, focusing on resilience, sustainability, and the bioeconomy. Participants will have the chance…
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From monocultures to biodiverse forests: A new chapter in Lebanon’s ecological restoration
Lebanon is transforming forest restoration by combining biodiversity data and DNA metabarcoding. This innovative approach integrates animals, plants, and soil life to create resilient, self-sustaining ecosystems. In the face of accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change, ecological restoration has become more than just replanting trees; it’s about reviving the complex web of life that keeps…
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Expanding the alliance for climate change adaptation through showrooms and field trips
All across Europe, there are practical initiatives contributing to the resilience of our landscapes against climate change hazards. Learning about them directly from their promoters is a unique opportunity not only to revisit and inspire ideas, foster connections, and identify synergies to strengthen resilience-seeking actions, but also to value them. And those are precisely the…