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May Hobeika

MA (International Public Management)
BA (Economics and the Earth's Environment)

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May Hobeika works at Ecologic Institute as a Researcher. Her work focuses on agricultural and land-use climate policy. May's native languages are French and German; she is fluent in English and speaks conversational Spanish.

May Hobeika contributes to research on living labs for agroecology in the ALL-Ready project, the development of transition pathways for pesticide reduction in the SPRINT project, and to Capacity Building for Ambitious Climate Action in the Agri-food Sector in Central Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining Ecologic Institute, May worked as a Consultant in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate at the Organization for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD, France) on food systems, agri-environmental indicators, and innovation policy for the evaluation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. She previously interned in the Climate Adaptation Division of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC, Germany), where she focused on knowledge management related to agriculture and food security in National Adaptation Plans. May has also interned at enviacon international, a Berlin-based consultancy, where she performed international agri-food market research and at Forum Ökologisch-soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS), a Berlin-based think tank, where she assisted research on economic instruments for nitrogen and ammonia emission reduction, and for meat consumption reduction.

May Hobeika holds a master's degree in International Public Management with a specialization in Agriculture from Sciences Po (Paris, France) and a bachelor's degree in Economics and the Earth's Environment from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). During her bachelor studies, May completed a field study semester in Panama, where she researched the impacts of climate change on agriculture and local adaptation strategies in Tierras Altas.

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Recent content by May Hobeika

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Cover Page of Report on: Environment and climate assessment of Poland's CAP Strategic Plan
This assessment identifies the likely contribution of Poland's CAP Strategic Plan to climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resources, and biodiversity protection. Overall, the findings are that the Plan is insufficient to respond to the country's needs in relation to environment and climate challenges.

Environment and Climate Assessment of Poland's CAP Strategic Plan

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Cover of the ad-hoc paper "QU.A.L.ITY soil carbon removals? Assessing the EU Framework for Carbon Removal Certification’s from a climate-friendly soil management perspective"
In this brief, researchers from Ecologic Institute and Öko-Institut critically assess the Commission's 2022 proposal for Framework for Carbon Removals Certification as it applies to climate-friendly soil management. In particular, they evaluate whether Framework's so-called QU.A.L.ITY criteria (Quantification, Additionality, Long-term storage, Sustainability) are sufficient to ensure high quality soil carbon removals. The brief summarises the specific challenge posed by soil carbon sequestration, identifies problems with the current proposal, and makes recommendations for improvements. The brief is available for download.

QU.A.L.ITY Soil Carbon Removals?

Assessing the EU Framework for Carbon Removal Certification from a climate-friendly soil management perspective

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Cover of the report "Role of soils in climate change mitigation"
This report examines the mitigation potential of climate friendly soil management practices at global, EU and German level, along with key management measures, their co-benefits and trade-offs, and implementation challenges.

Role of Soils in Climate Change Mitigation

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Cover of the study "Alternativen zu chemisch-synthetischen Pestiziden in der Landwirtschaft. Zusammenfassung und Überblick zum aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Stand", with logo of BUND. Background image: Cornflower in a grain field
The study for BUND provides scientific input for the discussion on more environmentally friendly crop protection in the future. It provides an overview of the potentials and barriers associated with alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides, as well as approaches on the implementation of integrated pest management that have so far been given too little consideration. The study is available for download.

Alternativen zu chemisch-synthetischen Pestiziden in der Landwirtschaft

Zusammenfassung und Überblick zum aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Stand

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Cover of the report
This report calls for the development of better evidence on gender and food systems as a necessary first step in the path towards gender equality. Based on OECD countries' experiences, it provides a roadmap to identify and overcome evidence gaps on gender aspects and policies that address gender inequality in food systems with the aim of advancing women's contribution to food systems.

Gender and Food Systems: Overcoming evidence gaps

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Project
 
This project will 1) identify good examples, new and innovative interventions to contribute to biodiversity and climate objectives of the CAP; 2) assess CAP Strategic Plan interventions that correspond to the biodiversity and climate ambitions in the four CAP Strategic Plans of Germany, France, Spain and Poland; 3) analyze whether these interventions correspond to the scientific evidence and whether they are relevant and sufficient; 4) consider co-benefits and trade-offs between different policy objectives.

Innovative Agricultural Interventions to Reach EU Biodiversity and Climate Objectives

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Ecologic Institute is contributing to a study aiming to map the implementation choices of Member States in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Strategic Plans. It also aims to assess the joint effort of Member States towards agricultural, rural development and environmental policy goals. This study is part of the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP, which supports the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) and Member States in the evaluation and implementation of a performance-based monitoring and evaluation framework for the CAP from 2022.

Mapping Study of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Analysis of Joint Efforts

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