In collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment. Speakers invited: Amilcare Boccuccia, Sector Hagaz Agricultural School Director, Eritrea; Fatima Dia Touré, Director of the Ministry of the Environment and Nature Preservation, Senegal; Wangari A: Maathai, Nobel Prize for Peace and Vice Minister of the Environment, Kenya; Altero Matteoli, Minister of Environment and Territory Preservation; Alberto Michelini, personal representative of the Prime Minister for Africa; Ignazio Musu, Venice International University, Italia; Alberto Piatti, General Secretary Avsi Foundation; Chèrif Rahmani, Minister of Territory and Environment Management, Algeria. Introduction by Corrado Clini, General Director of the Ministry of the Environment and the Territory Preservation.