Engaging with farmers and foresters to share knowledge and increase landscape resilience in the Mediterranean.
As the effects of climate change intensify, our landscapes and environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Strengthening landscape resilience and understanding how it can help mitigate climate change impacts is therefore essential.
The ResAlliance project, which ran from 2022 to 2025, focused on these challenges. Although the project is now officially closed, this website remains publicly available; however, it will no longer receive regular updates.
In-depth look at ResAlliance
ResAlliance (complete name “Landscape resilience knowledge alliance for agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean basin”) was a thematic network project funded by the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Union. The aim was to provide foresters and farmers with the knowledge and tools necessary to implement innovative landscape resilience solutions.
Focusing on Mediterranean countries, ResAlliance gathered and assessed knowledge, gaps, barriers, and good practices to achieve resilient landscapes, with particular emphasis on measures against the hazards of climate change. This was made effective across 4 thematic areas that helped set specific learning objectives to better address knowledge and implementation gaps:
Governance
Management practices
Technology
Finance
To achieve that, ResAlliance promoted multi-stakeholder interactive initiatives at two levels: LandNet and LandLab.
The LandNet was a Mediterranean thematic network on landscape resilience for forestry and agriculture. By engaging and training farmers, foresters, and other key stakeholders, the LandNet continuously identified new cooperation opportunities and networks to improve and increase knowledge and good practices, also delivering an extensive range of easy-to-access material.
The LandLabs were a tool for supporting knowledge transfer and activating regional landscape resilience solutions in 5 different Mediterranean countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus. These countries were chosen because they shared the threats posed by typical Mediterranean hazards aggravated by climate change, especially wildfires and droughts. At the same time, each country had specific social needs and agricultural and forestry challenges that called for tailored solutions.
ResAlliance was promoted by the European Forest Institute, in partnership with 15 other international partners.