The Terra Lemnia project is MedINA’s newly launched project on the island of Lemnos, funded under the MAVA Mediterranean Strategy Outcome M6 ‘Loss of biodiversity by abandonment of cultural practices’ as an example of an insular landscape. As part of the project, a team of selected national and international scientists, forming the Biodiversity Core Group...
The Terra Lemnia project, which started in September 2017 and will run for a three year period, has been approved under the Outcome M6 MAVA Mediterranean Strategy that deals with the ‘loss of biodiversity by abandonment of cultural practices’. Four pilot sites have been selected as representative for this Outcome, the island of Lemnos in...
The new project ‘Terra Kytheria’ has been kickstarted on Kythera Island, Greece, in partnership with the Kytherian Foundation for Culture & Development in March 2021. Building on the ongoing fruitful involvement on the island with Kythera Trails, MedINA is now upscaling the know-how and experience of Terra Lemnia to Kythera. The main objective of this...
Sustainable agriculture in Kythera
We are pleased to announce that our newest article “Farming practices and biodiversity: Evidence from a Mediterranean semi-extensive system on the island of Lemnos (North Aegean, Greece)” is now published in the Journal of Environmental Management by Elsevier. The publication is the result of a 3-year collaborative effort by the Terra Lemnia project’s multidisciplinary expert...
MedINA and the Green Tank submitted joint comments and recommendations on the interim text of the Consultation on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Strategic Plan 2023-2027, on November 1, 2021. The main point of the comments and recommendations is the fact that the 2023 – 2027 period CAP gives Greece the opportunity to redirect its...
Τhe role of cheese baskets in the cheese-making tradition of Lemnos and a starting point for sustainability
On the island of Lemnos, a traditional agricultural management system has been in place for hundreds of years. We call it the mandra system, because it is organized around the Lemnian mandra, the island’s iconic ensemble of farming infrastructures –stables, barns, fenced yards, living and storage spaces, milking and cheese making facilities, the threshing floor,...
Dear partners and friends, 2020 will undoubtedly be a year that will remain in all our memories. It’s been a year that has fundamentally challenged our established certainties on safety, closeness and necessities in all life areas. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic brought profound changes to the ways we work, communicate and socialize, making us realize...
On Saturday, June 27, the Share A Dish night took place in Lemnos, as a culmination of the #MedFoodHeroes digital campaign that took place from June 15-27 under the broader Mediterranean Rooted Everyday campaign. On Saturday night, for an hour between 9 and 10, the communication manager of MedINA, Alexia Zafeiropoulou, had the pleasure to...
