Inter-shore exchanges: cooperating to meet Mediterranean agricultural and food challenges

REGISTRATIONS FOR public conferences –

Morocco - Meknes

Thursday, October 9, 2025

9am – 2pm
National School of Agriculture
(ENAM)

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France – Montpellier

Thursday, November 6, 2025

2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Agronomic Institute
Mediterranean (IAMM)

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Egypt – Luxor

Thursday, November 20, 2025

9am – 2pm
Jolie Ville Hotel Kings Island

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PROGRAMS

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MOROCCO – Meknes, October 9, 2025

Event program:

Mistress of Ceremonies: Ghizlane Echchgadda, National School of Agriculture of Meknes

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Opening

  • A representative of the Regional Directorate of Agriculture of Meknes
  • Said Amiri, Director of ENAM

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM: Introduction

  • Meriem Alaouri, meteorologist, interim head of the National Climate Center of Morocco (DGM)

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Session 1: Testimonies & feedback 

  • Leila Masstouri, Tunisian farmer participating in the inter-river exchange
  • Jean-Toussaint Cipriani, French farmer participating in the inter-river exchange
  • Raouf Hasni, Tunisian farmer participating in the inter-river exchange

9H45 – 10H45 | Table ronde 1 et Q/R – “ S’organiser pour s’adapter : le levier du collectif ”

Moderator : Mohamed Elamrani, lecturer-researcher at the Department of Development Engineering, ENAM

Speakers

  • Habiba Ntourin, President of the women's cooperative of Safirate al Achab of Sekoura M'Daz, representative of the Boulemane living lab of the NATAE project
  • Mohsine Abdelhakim, representative of AMAC (Moroccan Association of Conservation Agriculture) and agricultural consulting engineer at ONCA
  • Fatima-Zahra Elmiri, National Coordinator of the IHYAE program and the DIAF project, Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.: Session 2: Testimonies and restitutions

Speakers :

  • Pierre Colin, French farmer participating in the inter-river exchange
  • Fatiha Hassouni, Moroccan farmer participating in the inter-shore exchange
  • Raouf Hasni, Tunisian farmer participating in the inter-river exchange

11H15 – 12H15 | Roundtable 2 and Q&A – “Financing adaptation: analyzing the obstacles, sharing the levers”

Moderator : Juliette David, Managing Director, Horus Finance

Speakers

  • Sara Belahsen, Director of the Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department, Crédit Agricole du Maroc (CAM)
  • Molka Draoui, Development Program Manager, Advans Tunisia
  • Timothée Ourbak, Head of Natural Resources Division, French Development Agency (AFD)

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Conclusion and perspectives

Nihal Bounaim, Project Manager at the Crédit Agricole du Maroc Foundation for Sustainable Development (FCAMDD)

12:30 – 12:45: Closing

  • Matthew Brun, Scientific Director of the FARM Foundation

12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Cocktail / Networking

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FRANCE – Montpellier, November 6, 2025

Event program:

Mistress of Ceremonies: Elen Lemaitre Curri, Deputy Director of IAMM

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Opening

Speakers :

  • Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty [to be confirmed]
  • Isabelle Touzard, Vice-president of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
  • Teodoro Miano, Secretary General of CIHEAM [to be confirmed]

2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Introduction

  • Elen Lemaitre Curri, Deputy Director of CIHEAM Montpellier

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.: Session 1: Testimonies & feedback 

Speakers :

  • Said Akkif, Moroccan farmer participating in the inter-shore exchange
  • Alexandre Arnaudies, French farmer participating in the inter-river exchange

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Roundtable 1 and Q&A – “News sectors and regions: anticipating and planning adaptation”

Moderator : Nina Graveline, agricultural and water economist, coordinator of the TALANOA-Water France project, UMR Innovation, INRAE

Speakers

  • Thomas Paul And Hugues Chaboud, Var winegrowers and pistachio growers who launched Pépistach', a pistachio nursery in Provence
  • Bernard Ader, farmer and president of the National Council for Food Resilience
  • Fabienne Bonet, President of the Pyrénées-Orientales Chamber of Agriculture and President of the Water-Climate Commission of the Occitanie Regional Chamber of Agriculture

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Coffee break

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM : Session 2: Testimonies and restitutions

Speakers :

  • Mohamed Haroun, Algerian farmer participating in the inter-shore exchange
  • Yann Kalkan, Turkish farmer participating in the inter-shore exchange

16H15 – 17H15 | Round table 2: “What tools are available to better finance and ensure the adaptation of agriculture?”

Moderator : Precila Rambhunjun, Geographer, coordinator of the AACC-Med project, FARM Foundation

Speakers :

  • André Tomas, Head of Agriculture, Crédit Agricole Sud Méditerranée
  • Jean-Michel Geeraert, Director of the Agriculture and Prevention market, Pacifica – Crédit Agricole Assurance
  • Assawer Hedhli, Head of Agricultural Risk Management, CTAMA

5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Conclusion and perspectives

  • Paul Luu, Executive Secretary of the international initiative “4 per 1000”

5:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.: Closing

  • Vincent Labarthe, Vice-President in charge of agriculture and agricultural education, Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée region
  • Pascal Lheureux, farmer and President of the FARM Foundation

5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: Cocktail / Networking

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EGYPT – Luxor, November 20, 2025

Event program:

09h00 – 09h15 : Ouverture

  • représentant·e du gouvernorat de Louxor [to be confirmed]

09h15 – 09h30 : Introduction

  • Gamal Siam, professeur économiste, université du Caire (en ligne)

09h30 – 09h45 : Session 1 – Témoignages & restitutions

  • Oumaima Jaoudi, Agricultrice tunisienne de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med
  • Harun Sapli, Agriculteur turc de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med
  • Hamada Mehrez, Agriculteur égyptien de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med

09h45 – 10h45 | Table ronde 1 et Q/R : « Accès au marché : contractualisation, mesure d’impact et labellisation »

Moderator : Yaser Diab, professeur émérite, Doyen de la faculté d’agriculture, Université d’Assouan

Speakers :

  • Gaber Mohamed, agriculteur égyptien, responsable de l’association d’usagers de l’eau d’Elboghdady
  • Othmane Elshaikh, Point focal, Projet SupMed
  • Mahmoud Abdelrazik, représentant de l’entreprise agroalimentaire Golden Valley
  • Mona Dakruny, représentante d’une ONG locale de consommateurs
  • Mohamde Fouad Hassan, représentant du ministère de l’Agriculture, Directeur de la direction agricole de Louxor

10h45 – 11h00 : Pause-café

11h00 – 11h15 : Session 2 – Témoignages & restitutions

  • Aziz Bouhejba, agriculteur tunisien de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med
  • Fatima Ezzahrae Lamnasra, agricultrice marocaine de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med
  • Hervé Carbonel, agriculteur français de l’échange inter-rives AACC-Med

11h15 – 12h15 | Table ronde 2 et Q/R : Financer l’adaptation : Accès et orientation des financements de l’agroécologie

Moderator : May El Shafi, journaliste

Speakers :

  • Moheb Marzouk, représentant de l’Agricultural Bank of Egypt
  • Ola Hamdy, représentant d’un projet GIZ
  • Yasser Ali, producteur de cultures diversifiées
  • Mohamad Ahmad, National Bank of Egypt, succursale de Louxor

12h15 – 12h30 : Conclusion et perspectives

  • Othmane Elshaikh, Point focal, Projet SupMed

12h30 – 12h45 : Clôture

  • Matthew Brun, Scientific Director of the FARM Foundation

12h45 – 14h00 : Cocktail / Networking

In 2024, the FARM Foundation and its partners* launched the project AACC-Med (Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in the Mediterranean), a tool for dialogue and cooperation between Mediterranean agricultural stakeholders to share solutions and jointly formulate recommendations on adaptation.

After a first year marked by the publication of the white paper "The urgency of adaptation» and the organization of unifying events, phase 2 of the project is underway:

Inter-shore exchanges

3 meetings between farmers in 3 different countries: Morocco, France, Egypt

In 2025, the project AACC-Med organizes exchanges between farmers from Morocco, France and Egypt, with the support of local partners such as:

Fert, Fert Morocco, the Moroccan Association of Conservation Agriculture (AMAC), the National School of Agriculture of Meknes (ENAM), the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), AgriBioVar and the Egyptian Association for Sustainable Development (EASD)

This part of the cross-shore exchanges and participation in these meetings are not open to the public. They are reserved for selected farmers and their local counterparts, but can be followed on our social networks. Cross-shore exchanges are only open to the public during the multi-stakeholder conferences organized at the end of each meeting (see below).

Inter-bank exchanges are:

Farm visits
to share adaptation practices already in operation: crop change, diversification, soil conservation, agroecology, agroforestry, etc.

Participatory workshops
to identify the levers and obstacles to adaptation in particular financial and insurance

Co-construction of a strategy Mediterranean adaptation agricultural (capitalization, pooling, reproducibility) with all stakeholders in agricultural and food systems

Join us and participate in public conferences !

At the end of each discussion period, a multi-stakeholder conference, open to the public, is organized in each host country to:

Restore testimonials and feedback farm visits and workshops

Organize round tables
bringing together farmers, technicians, decision-makers, researchers, financiers and representatives of civil society

Conduct collective reflection
on an adaptation strategy in the Mediterranean and co-construct avenues of action for the continuation of the project

Whether you are Mediterranean producers, public decision-makers, elected officials, financiers, businesses, researchers, engaged citizens and local stakeholders

By participating in these discussions, you contribute your voice and experience to a collective approach. to bring about sustainable solutions to climate change and strengthen the resilience of Mediterranean agriculture.

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*A project coordinated by the FARM Foundation with the support of its partners:

THE CIHEAM Montpellier, “4 per 1000” Initiative, THE Agricultural Credit of Morocco, THE Regional banks of Crédit Agricole (Alps Provence, Corsica, Languedoc, Provence Côte d'Azur, South Mediterranean), Credit Agricole Italia And AAA Initiative.

Project page: https://fondation-farm.org/projet/aaccmed/

For any questions: aaccmed@fondation-farm.org