Inter-shore exchanges "What strategies for adapting to climate change in the Mediterranean?""
Summary of the 3 inter-river exchanges 2025
Morocco, France, Egypt
Cooperating to address Mediterranean agricultural and food challenges
The FARM Foundation and its partners* launched the AACC-Med project (Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in the Mediterranean) in 2024, building a large-scale partnership bringing together Mediterranean institutions committed to addressing growing climate risks and their impacts on our agriculture.
Inter-river exchanges combine farm visits, participatory workshops, and multi-stakeholder conferences to share lessons learned. They bring together farmers, technicians, researchers, funders, and policymakers. The formats alternate between field immersion (observations of practices: irrigation, diversification, agroecology, livestock farming) and group working sessions.
The objective is to document and share adaptation practices already in place – crop change, diversification, soil conservation, agroecology, agroforestry – while collectively identifying the levers and brakes on their deployment, particularly financial ones, in order to co-construct a Mediterranean adaptation strategy.
These meetings were held in several host countries (Morocco, France, Egypt in 2025) in partnership with local stakeholders and included public conferences. Among the 200 participants, some thirty farmers from the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean basin visited farms and shared their practices.
The key issues that emerged from these discussions are as follows:
1. Water management and the fight against desertification are at the forefront of adaptation
2. In the face of climate change, No farmer can adapt alone.
3. The need to mobilize farmers upstream, that the agri-food industries, processors and public authorities to co-construct value chains that ensure outlets and fair prices.
4. While the adaptation of Mediterranean agriculture is no longer up for debate, Its funding still needs to be established.
* AACC-Med project partners
CIHEAM Montpellier, the «4 per 1000» Initiative, Crédit Agricole du Maroc, the Crédit Agricole regional banks (Alpes Provence, Corse, Languedoc, Provence Côte d'Azur, Sud Méditerranée), Crédit Agricole Italia and the AAA Initiative.
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