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The Government, in partnership with Municipality of Alcoutim and plus 35 institutions among universities, municipalities, enterprises, public bodies and producer associations and Development Committee, signed on 19 July, the Protocol for the creation of the Competence Center for Combating Desertification which aims to study, seek solutions and "contribute to the success" of the national program to combat desertification. The Competence Center for Combating Desertification (CCDesert), will be based in Alcoutim and will be a forum for sharing and articulating knowledge, bringing together research, training and transfer of knowledge, with economic agents and relevant organs of the public administration, by strengthening their cooperation at national and international level,

Promoting the development and sustainability of the fight against desertification by strengthening research, training, training, promotion of innovation and the transfer and dissemination of knowledge is the mission of CCDesert

] CCDesert will have a directorate, a general assembly and of 39; an advisory board as management bodies, the financial, human and material resources necessary for its operation will be affected by the members and the municipality of 39; Alcoutim who, as host, will provide logistical services and

The activity of CCDesert will begin with the holding of the first meeting of the general assembly to elect the president and the bureau, who will be called by the mayor of Alcoutim in a month after the homologation of the protocol

The Mayor of Alcoutim, Osvaldo Gonçalves, welcomes the fact that the Center of competence in the fight against desertification, be based in Alcoutim, which is, at the same time, a reflection of a sense of trust and responsibility. It is a national partnership that has been able to bring together a common goal to "effectively develop measures and plans of action to combat desertification and depopulation," a vast multidisciplinary entity and organization. of personalities. , which allows a broad vision in the approach of this problem and in the definition of solutions more adapted to the real needs of the territory.

Source: GC of Mun Alcoutim