About MONALISA project

The MONALISA project (MONitoring and Assessing prevention and restoration soLutIons to combat deSertificAtion), an Innovation Action Horizon project aimed at preventing and reversing Land Degradation and Desertification (LDD) across Mediterranean drylands, has started with the Kick-off Meeting hosted by the coordinator organisation Università degli Studi di Sassari (UNISS) in Sassari, Italy. The project is funded under the Horizon Europe program under the topic HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-04. The Granting Authority for this project is the European Research Executive Agency (REA), under the European Commission. The development of the MONALISA project and solutions will be carried out in 6 Mediterranean Case Studies – Los Pedroches, Spain; Médenine, Tunisia; Berchidda-Monti, Italy; Alta Murgia Park, Italy; Asterousia, Greece; and Beit Dajan, Palestine. The solution groups that are being assessed, replicated and expanded are nature-based (e.g. natural ecosystem and agro-ecological restoration practices) and high-tech solutions (e.g. innovative grazing systems, organic fertilisers/amendments and microbial-based solutions, conservation agriculture practices, water-related solutions – water harvesting techniques and treated wastewater reuse in agriculture).