Antonio Santoro, PhD, is Research Fellow at the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence (Italy) and Deputy Director of the UNESCO Chair on “Agricultural Heritage Landscapes”. He is coordinating the international project MedAgriFoodResilience, funded under the 2021 joint call SUSFOOD2 and FOSC, on the resilience and valorization of traditional agroforestry systems, which has also received the official support of the FAO GIAHS Secretariat. In addition, he is involved in the “GIAHS capacity building” project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. He participated in projects of the Ministry of Agricultural Policies, including the research on the National Catalogue of Historic Rural Landscapes, and in two landscape restoration projects on behalf of the FAI (Italian National Trust). As a freelancer, he carried out consultancy for different UNESCO sites. He has published more than 40 scientific articles in international journals on landscape planning and monitoring, forest management, traditional agroforestry systems. He is part of the editorial board for the Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID).
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