1. 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

2. 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

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

4. Presentation of a project you are working on 1/3
Conception and coordination of an ecological restoration productive chain in the Atlantic Rainforest , Brazil( ) 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

5. Presentation of a project you are working on 2/3
Main Activities ( ) (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