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Breaking silos for Mediterranean landscape resilience: lessons from ResAlliance

Breaking silos for Mediterranean landscape resilience: lessons from ResAlliance

Published December 18, 2025 by ResAlliance

Resilience is more than a buzzword—it’s a shared responsibility. Explore the insights gained, the 120 good practices tackling natural disturbances, and the policy recommendations that will help to shape the future of Mediterranean farms and forests.

The ResAlliance project has come to an end after three years of work across the Mediterranean. It has been a journey that 16 partners have travelled together, and in some stretches it has not been easy. Now that the word “resilience” is in vogue, over these three years we have experienced what makes it so difficult to apply. Creating landscapes that are resilient to the disturbances influenced by climate change does not depend on a single person, association, company, ministry or government agency. Achieving resilient landscapes requires the collaboration and coordination of multiple entities at different levels.

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Turning local resilience solutions into lasting Mediterranean policy action 

Turning local resilience solutions into lasting Mediterranean policy action 

Published November 25, 2025 by ResAlliance

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…

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Enhancing Mediterranean landscape resilience through shared knowledge, collaboration and innovation

Enhancing Mediterranean landscape resilience through shared knowledge, collaboration and innovation

Published October 29, 2025 by ResAlliance

As the project draws to a close, ResAlliance is building bridges across the Mediterranean – connecting people, sharing knowledge, and combining traditional and modern practices to enhance landscape resilience 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. Through a series of interactive in-person and virtual information sessions, land managers, researchers and policy-makers have come together to explore a common goal: creating landscapes that can adapt to and are resilient to a changing climate.

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Empowering resilience: a new course tackles climate challenges in Mediterranean landscapes

Empowering resilience: a new course tackles climate challenges in Mediterranean landscapes

Published June 10, 2025 by ResAlliance

Join the free Resilience for Mediterranean Landscapes MOOC—empowering forestry and agriculture professionals with tools, strategies, and case studies to tackle climate hazards and build sustainable, climate-smart landscapes.

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Enhancing territorial resilience: mobile pastoralism and land stewardship

Enhancing territorial resilience: mobile pastoralism and land stewardship

Published March 26, 2025 by ResAlliance

Explore how mobile pastoralism and land stewardship are key to preserving Mediterranean landscapes. These nature-based solutions merge tradition with modern sustainability, enhancing biodiversity, preventing wildfires, and supporting resilient ecosystems. Discover how initiatives like transhumance and the Land Stewardship Scheme are reviving traditional farming practices to combat climate change and protect the region’s natural heritage.

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Could traditional agropastoral systems be the key to a resilient future? 

Could traditional agropastoral systems be the key to a resilient future? 

Published October 30, 2024 by ResAlliance

Traditional farming systems have been developed over generations of experience. Rooted in time-tested knowledge, these systems may hold valuable solutions for modern challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. 

From the Agdal system to the Mandra system, traditional practices offer insights for creating resilient agricultural landscapes. Developed over generations by local communities, these systems are not only integrated with their natural environments but also adaptable. This makes them a source of solutions to the increasingly pressing demands of climate change and other global pressures. 

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Resilience thinking: a promising avenue to address the multiple challenges of our time

Resilience thinking: a promising avenue to address the multiple challenges of our time

Published May 14, 2024 by ResAlliance

In the face of global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and population growth, resilience theory offers strategies to strengthen landscapes. Learn how resilience can help navigate these complex issues.

Resilience as a solution for the global triple challenge

Humanity is facing a huge challenge: we need to take care – feed, provide shelter, and health – of more and more people. We need to mitigate climate change while at the same time adapting to the part of it that has already happened. And we have to stop the enormous loss of plants and animals in nature – of the biodiversity on which ecosystems provide ‘environmental services’ to humans.
This “Triple Challenge” isn’t just happening in one place—it is happening all over the world, on land, in the water, and in the air. Think of the Earth as a big puzzle made up of different pieces called “landscapes”, where nature and people interact in multiple, complex, and specific ways. Each landscape has its own unique features, but they all face similar problems.

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Creating mosaic landscapes: integrating vineyards to prevent wildfires and increase resilience

Creating mosaic landscapes: integrating vineyards to prevent wildfires and increase resilience

Published April 29, 2024 by ResAlliance

Discover how agroforestry mosaic landscapes in La Plana de Manlleu, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain, with multifunctional vineyard firebreak buffers, prevent wildfires while offering socio-economic benefits and…

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Resilient agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean: what are the challenges?

Resilient agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean: what are the challenges?

Published March 27, 2024 by ResAlliance

Practitioners from 11 Mediterranean countries participated in a public survey to identify and understand the principal needs, barriers, bottlenecks, innovation, and knowledge gaps needed to…

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