CIHEAM Press Review

The number of ecotourism areas established under the General Directorate of Forestry (OGM), affiliated with the Agriculture and  Forestry Ministry has reached 136 as of November.

After a century of unrest, Albania's welcome remains undimmed as refugees return to piece its national identity back together one dish at a time.

The vastness of the Sinai desert is juxtaposed with the small and hidden spaces that Bedouin women hold. Yet, when one enters these spaces, one realizes that their inner world stretches across the desert, and represents a deeper, multi-faceted and complex world that intersects with our own world. For Bedouin women, part of their heart […]

The 154th meeting of the CIHEAM Governing Board was held on 14 and 15 December 2023 at the Headquarters of the Organisation in Paris. In addition to the presentation of the activity reports of the General Secretariat and the 4 CIHEAM Institutes (Bari, Chania, Montpellier, Zaragoza).

One of the most crit­i­cal issues fac­ing Spain is the ongo­ing rural exo­dus. About 95 per­cent of the country’s pop­u­la­tion lives on just 30 per­cent of the land, with most peo­ple liv­ing in Madrid and along the coast.
A 2019 gov­ern­ment report said 48 per­cent of all munic­i­pal­i­ties have fewer than 12.5 inhab­i­tants per square kilo­me­ter. Parts of Aragón and Extremadura, the fourth and fifth largest regions in Spain by land area, have pop­u­la­tion den­si­ties on par with those of Siberia – just two peo­ple per square kilo­me­ter.