{"id":697,"date":"2019-05-09T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/?p=697"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:45:44","slug":"the-portuguese-innovation-broker-of-the-afinet-project-visits-agroforestry-home-gardens-at-mertola-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/archivos\/697","title":{"rendered":"The Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project visits agroforestry home gardens at M\u00e9rtola Municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the 30th of April the Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project visited agroforestry home gardens working with the Local Food Network of M\u00e9rtola, by invitation of the Municipality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M\u00e9rtola Municipality has recently started an initiative to implement a Local Food Network based on agroforestry and syntrophic practices. This initiative is a partnership between the Municipality, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Terra Sintr\u00f3pica, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Empres\u00e1rios do Vale do Guadiana and Food Network Academy. Its purpose is to create a local network to produce and distribute vegetables and fruit, supplying school and home canteens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">M\u00e9rtola Municipality invited research centres for a visit on April 30<sup>th<\/sup>: Instituto Superior de Agronomia\/Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF) represented by Joana Amaral Paulo (the Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project), Instituto Nacional de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o Agr\u00e1ria e Veterin\u00e1ria (INIAV), and Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias\/ Centro de Ecologia, Evolu\u00e7\u00e3o e Altera\u00e7\u00f5es Ambientais (cE3c). They visited two of the agroforestry home gardens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this visit it was also discussed forest management alternatives for the M\u00e9rtola Forest Perimeter. The Municipality has offered all these areas (forest perimeter and agroforestry systems) to be used by the researchers as partnerships for master or doctoral thesis and experimental trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 30th of April the Portuguese Innovation Broker of the AFINET project visited agroforestry home gardens working with the Local Food Network of M\u00e9rtola, by invitation of the Municipality. M\u00e9rtola Municipality has recently started an initiative to implement a Local Food Network based on agroforestry and syntrophic practices. This initiative is a partnership between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agroforestrynet.eu\/afinet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}