The three-day conference included 18 sessions, representatives of international and intergovernmental organizations, high-level experts and representatives of Mediterranean cities shared their experiences and discussed strategies towards more sustainable food systems that take into account the major challenges to overcome in the Mediterranean region, by linking consumption and production through the Mediterranean diet in a sustainable and healthy way.

 2019 Historical Photo Group 

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From 2003 to 2019: The Historical Contextualization of the Second World Conference

HISTORICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION

2003 Second Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures, Calabria

2015, Sandro Dernini," Esiste ancora la Dieta Mediterranea'", EXPO Conferenza Internazionale  organizzata congiuntamente dal CNR, CIHEAM, CREA, ENEA e Forum sulle Culture Alimentari Mediterranee. EXPO Milano 2015.

2009: Sandro Dernini,  The Mediterranean Diet Today: A Sostainable Diet Model". 3rd International CIISCAM Conference, Parma in direction to the EXPO Milan 2015

AS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CALL OF ACTION FOR THE REVITALIZATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET

A FAO/CIHEAM workshop, 14-15 March 2017,  CIHEAM-Bari, Valenzano (Bari)
in support of the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme 

The new Med Diet 4.0  is as a new comprehensive multidimensional framework for the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet with multiplex sustainable benefits and country specific territorial variations.  In the Med Diet 4.0 framework the well-documented health and nutrition mayor benefits of the Mediterranean diet are incorporated with three additional sustainable environmental, socio-cultural and economic benefits: low environmental impacts and rich in biodiversity, high socio-cultural food values,  and positive economic local returns.

Dernini, S., EM Berry EM., Serra-Majem L., La Vecchia C., Capone R., Medina FX., J Aranceta-Bartrina J., Belahsen R., Burlingame B.,  Calabrese G., Corella1 D., Donini LM., Lairon D., Meybeck M., AG Pekcan AG., Piscopo S., Yngve A., and Trichopoulou, A. “Med Diet 4.0: the Mediterranean diet with four sustainable benefits” 

Public Health Nutr.Public health nutrition, 2017, 20.7: 1322-1330. 

THE 2016 CALL FOR ACTION
ON THE REVITALIZATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
IFMeD First World Congress on the Mediterranean Diet, Milan, 6-8 July 2016

                         Elliot Berry, Lluis Serra Majem, Sandro Dernini, Emmanuel Pauze

La Nuova Piramide ha come obiettivo principe quello di parlare al grande pubblico, diventando a partire da Luglio 2015 un PAVILION itinerante e interattivo, rivolto a promuovere tra la gente i molteplici benefici della Dieta Mediterranea attraverso il modello  MED DIET 4.0, con quattro sostenibili benefici per la salute, l'ambiente, l'economia, la società e la cultura,  partendo inizialmente con un tour nazionale ed euro-mediterraneo, per poi affrontare il mercato globale.

Project by Arch. Loreto Papadia, concept Dr. Sandro Dernini

EXPO CONFERENCE CENTER - MILAN, 14 MAY 2015 

CNR-CIHEAM-Bari- CRA-ENEA, FORUM ON MEDITERRANEAN FOOD CULTURES