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Working Group Mountain Agriculture and Forests of the Alpine Convention (MAMF)

Opening Session
9:30 – 10:00 Login on Web Platform
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10:00 – 10:30 Work Opening
Morning greetings, presentation and adoption of the agenda

Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea
Alenka Smerkolji – Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention
Marie Clotteau – Euromontana
Marco Onida, European Commission DG Environment – “A new EU approach to forests”

SESSION 1 : Mountain food biodiversity and green tourism
Moderator: Simonetta Mazzarino – Città del Bio/Università degli studi di Torino

10:30 – 10:40 AlpFoodway: Alpine Food Heritage towards the inscription as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cassiano Luminati – Director of Polo Poschiavo and Lead Partner of Alpine Space Project AlpFoodway

10:40 – 10:50 Nature park management to maintain cultural landscape and biodiversity in cooperation with tourism and farmers
Florian Schublach – Naturpark Ötscher Tormäuer

10:50 – 11:00 Identification mark of the ‘mountain product’ quality regime: application of the EU Directive in Italy
Domenico Mastrogiovanni, Euromontana

11:00 – 11:15 QUESTION TIME AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION

SESSION 2 : Circular economy and sustainable value-chains for mountain agriculture and forests
Moderator: Hans-Joachim Hermann – German Environment Agency – Head of the Green Economy Board of Alpine Convention

11:35 – 11:45 Business for sustainable value chains in the mountains: Start ups: Soplaya & ProjectMii
Mauro Germani – CEO

11:45 – 11:55 Giving more value to Mountain Forest’s products: certification
Francesco Dellagiacoma – PEFC vice President

11:55 – 12:05 FOODCHAIN
Marco Vitale – CEO

12:05 – 12:15 The work of the wood subgroup of the AG2 of EUSALP
Antoine PATTE – Chargé de mission Réseau Alpin de la Foret de Montagne (TBD)

12:15 – 12:30 LEGNO VIVO- international event: the enhancement and use of wood for the production of fine artisan musical instruments.
Davide Dory Deriu Frasson – Presidente
Davide Fregona – Direttore artistico
Distretto culturale del pianoforte, Friuli – Venezia Giulia (Italia)

12:30 – 12:40 QUESTION TIME AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION

SESSION 3 : Alpine natural capital for green development of mountain agriculture and forests
Moderator: Paolo Angelini, Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea

12:40 – 12:50 Trentino Tree Agreement: a pact to increase forests and improve forest –human relationship
Roberto Zoannetti – Department of Agriculture, Forests and Soil Defense of the Autonomous province of Trento

12:50 – 13:00 The value of biodiversity for mountain agriculture
Alessandra Pesce – Research Director at the Council for Research in Agriculture and Agricultural Economics, CREA

13:0 – 13:10 Cultural values of forests through a landscape perspective
Riccardo Brugnoli , Maria Teresa Idone – Directorate – General for Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape – Service V “Landscape protection” – MiBACT

13:10 – 13:20 QUESTION TIME AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION

Closing SESSION

13:20 – 13:30 Conclusions
Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea – Nature Protection Department

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