Rigas Zafeiriou, manager of MedINA’s ‘Sustainable Food Systems’ programme, presented the organisation’s holistic approach to safeguarding living food heritage, while promoting healthy agroecosystems and sustainable entrepreneurship at the event “Cultural heritage and contemporary threats” organised by the Association for International & European Affairs at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Greece on September 30.
Drawing insights from a number of projects implemented on Lemnos island, Greece, the discussion centred around solutions to tackle the unprecedented challenges of rural exodus, land abandonment and low productive capacity in remote and insular areas.
In this framework the new European project RIBES was introduced to the audience as an endeavour to accelerate rural innovation by encouraging circular value chains and novel governance models on Lemnos Island and the region of North Aegean.
