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Portugal presides this semester the Council of the European Union and during the same time a set of activities related to the competences of the Union and various current issues are carried out.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recognized the “valonas” as a TECA(Techniques and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers). TECA’s address multiple challenges in key areas such as crop production, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture, forest management, climate change, and disaster risk reduction.

The Decade of Ecosystem Restoration of the United Nations, declared by ONU from 2021 to 2030, is in pursue of a massive environment restoration as a way to fight climate change and have better food safety, water supply and biodiversity.

New book about the Millenary Olive Trees of the Sénia Territory, updating everything that has been achieved in the different fields: oil quality, gastronomy and oleo-tourism.

There's two more things to highlight:

The olive tree from Traiguera (Castelló) was acknowledged in the first edition of the contest, in which 12 more candidacies of legendary specimens were presented from Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Lebanon, Montenegro and Turkey. Other countries belonging to Recomed are Greece, Croatia, Slovenia and Morocco.

2018 was the European year of cultural heritage and, for this reason, together the Council of Europe and the European Commission organized the Prize European Heritage Stories among the 50 countries that signed the European Cultural Convention.

In 2016, one of the most recognized productions of Spanish cinema was "El olivo", the film directed by Icíar Bollaín and starring Javier Gutiérrez, Anna Castillo and Pep Ambròs. Written by Paul Laverty, Ken Loach's regular screenwriter, the film tells the story of Alma.

The Sénia Territory is a local entity made up of 27 municipalities (15 Valencian ones, 9 Catalans and 3 Aragonese), located around the Tosal del Rey, a point where the region of Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon meet and, besides sharing geography, history, language and culture, it has the major concentration of millenary olive trees of the world: more than 5.000 that exceed 3.50 m in trunk perimeter measured at 1.30 m from the ground.