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Cosimo Lacirignola, Secretary General of the CIHEAM

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Cosimo Lacirignola has worked on issues of Mediterranean agriculture, food security and rural development for over 30 years. He is an agricultural economist and graduate of the University of Bologna. After having been an official of the European Commission, he became administrator at the CIHEAM Headquarters from 1983 to 1987 and became head of the CIHEAM-Bari in 1987. Cosimo Lacirignola has also acted as advisor for international relations to the Ministers of Agriculture of three different Italian governments...

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SPEECHES AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS

Latest

• Statement for the signature of Memorandum of Cooperation with the International Olive Council (IOC), Tunis, 15 July 2016 (French)
• Statement for the 1st World Conference on Mediterranean Diet, Milano, 8 July 2016 (English)
• Statement for the signature of the Memorandum of Cooperation with the French Institute for Agricultural, Forestry, and Veterinary Sciences (AGREENIUM), Paris, 22 June 2016 (French)
• Statement for the European Development Days, Rural Women’s economic empowerment in the MENA Region, Brussels, 16 June 2016 (English)
• Statement for the 8th meeting of the Mediterranean Organic Agriculture Network (MOAN), Paris , 8 June, 2016 (French)
• Statement during the Ministerial Conference “Italia-Africa”, Rome, 18 May, 2016 (English)
• Statement for the 33rd FAO Regional Conference for the Near East, FAO-CIHEAM Side-Event “Planting the seeds of sustainability from production to consumption in the MENA Region” Rome, 11 May, 2016 (English)
• Statement for the launching of the “4 per 1000” initiative COP21, Paris, 1^st December 2015 (French)
• Statement for 8th Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), Beirut, 16 November 2015  
• Statement for the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture Istanbul, 8 May 2015 (English)

FEATURED EVENTS

Latest

• International workshop "How interventions in agriculture and food security can contribute towards stabilization in Syria ?" CIHEAM, Cooperazione Italiana allo Sviluppo; DFID - UK Department for International Development organised in Bari 28th -29th June 2016

• First Ministerial conference “Italia-Africa” in Rome,18 May 2016

• 33rd FAO Regional conference for the Near East, in Rome11th of May

• High-level international seminar on the monitoring of the bacteria Xylella Fastidiosa organized by the Near East Plant Protection Organisation (NEPPO) in Bari, 19 -22 April 2016

• United Nations Regional Conference (FAO-CGPM) on sustainable traditional fishing in the Mediterranean and the North Sea in Algiers, 7-9 March 2016

EDITORIALS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Selected

• Struggling against Food Waste in the Mediterranean Region to Strengthen Food Security, IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2015 (English)

• Post-2015 Agenda and Mediterranean Issues, Le Huffington Post,18/09/2015 (French)

• Post-2015 Development Agenda Agricultural Focus & Mediterranean Challenges, Diploweb, 02/05/2015 (English)

VIDEOS AND PHOTOS

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Declaration of the Secretary-General at the FAO, Signing ceremony of MoU between FAO and CIHEAM, 15^th of October 2015

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