ALEXANDRA ANDRADE CRESCENTE FERTIL alexandraandrade19@gmail.com IPROMO Bioeconomy in mountain areas – an opportunity for local development Pieve Tesino /Ormea 18 June -02 July 2018

Employment and main activities Education Graduate Degree - GEOLOGY (Brazil) Pos-graduate - Environmental Sciences and Technology (The Netherlands) Master Degree - (Brazil) PhD (The Netherlands) - incomplete Employment and main activities Since 2000 (working for NGOs): developing assesment and plans for biodiversity conservation, watershed conservation, carbon sequestration, Ecological Service Payment Projects Motivating and putting together organizations to implement conservation projects Earlier: researcher, lecturer, consultant in subjects such as environmental impact assessment, management planning

Other interests (volunteer work, hobbies etc.) Yoga Mountain hiking Cooking

Presentation of a project you are working on 1/3 Conception and coordination of an ecological restoration productive chain in the Atlantic Rainforest , Brazil(2016-2018) Motivation: 7% of the Rainforest is left; the most populated area in Brazil with high demand for water Focus Area: Paraiba River Basin and Mantiqueira Mountain Range (states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais) Who is involved: public and private organizations dealing with ecological restoration

Presentation of a project you are working on 2/3 Main Activities (2016-2017) (1) Motivating organizations, researchers and technicians (2) Promoting meetings and worshops with stakeholders (3) Doing an assessment of the restoration productive chain (a document was produced) Ongoing activities (2018) (1) organizing a project to recover threatened species of the Atlantic Rainforest (mainly timber species), involving seed collectors and small land owners: «pomares de sementes», collecting seeds in public and private protected areas (2) negotiating a project with a Technological Park to appling technology in the selection of the most viable seeds to reproduce the forest, to recover eroded and poor soils, to plant in remote and fragile areas (high areas); to monitore the forest growing and its effects on water quality and quantity