The book, 'Sustainable Food Systems. Change of Route in the Mediterranean', explores food system sustainability through a transdisciplinary approach, highlighting the intricate challenges which face food systems - from production to consumption - emphasising the vital role of the Mediterranean diet across different sectors, and recognising ecosystem-dependent relationships and interdependencies.
Inspired by the discussions held at the Third World Conference on the Revitalisation of the Mediterranean Diet, organised by CIHEAM Bari, Italy in 2022, the book is an ideal continuation of a cultural journey towards a change in the vision of Mediterranean food systems, moving from agri-food production to sustainable consumption and placing the Mediterranean diet and the consumer at the heart of this new course.
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In the international debate on the sustainability of diets and food systems, in recent years the Mediterranean diet, predominantly a plant-based diet with low consumption of animal and industrial products, has been increasingly studied as a model of sustainable diet, context-specific for the Mediterranean. Its sustainability is characterized by four interrelated sustainable benefits, with country-specific variations in nutrition and health, environment, local economy, society and culture. Many questions still need to be addressed on sociocultural and economic assessments of the Mediterranean diet. It is necessary to develop a systemic approach on the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable dietary pattern, more than only on its characteristic food groups. It requires updating the notion of the Mediterranean diet, with a new perspective as a contemporary Mediterranean sustainable lifestyle with contextual differences. In conclusion, it is necessary to rethink the Mediterranean diet, as a sustainable diet model, within the framework of the Mediterranean sustainable food systems, through a new transdisciplinary narrative, overcoming the silos of disciplines, at different levels of specialization, and fragmented sectoral approaches, centered on present and future Mediterranean generations.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0007996023000883
3rd MEDITERRANEAN DIET WORLD CONFERENCE
28-30 September 2022 – CIHEAM Bari
PROGRAMME
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), the Bari Institute of CIHEAM has organized the Third World Conference on the Revitalization of the Mediterranean Diet. The Conference was held on 28-30 September 2022 in Bari under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, focused on the theme: "Change of Course Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Mediterranean Countries: the Mediterranean Diet as a Strategic Resource to Accelerate the Agenda 2030 in the Region”.
The Conference addressed the priority issues identified during the Second World Conference on the Revitalization of the Mediterranean Diet (Palermo 2019) and builds on the orientations of three SFS-MED independent Food Systems Summit Dialogues, organized in 2021.
It served to boost the operationalization of the SFS-MED Platform, a multi-stakeholder initiative on sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean, jointly initiated as an OPN-SFSP’s affiliated project by CIHEAM, FAO and UfM, with the collaboration of the PRIMA Foundation and its Coordination Desk hosted at the CIHEAM Bari.
Aim of the Conference was to trigger a change of route in the current perception of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable food model, with multiple benefits on health/ nutrition, environment (including biodiversity), economic, social and cultural sustainability, taking in due consideration their contextual differences in Mediterranean countries.
SUMMARY REPORT
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
Chapter 2. A Change of Route in the Mediterranean, revitalising the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ towards more Sustainable Food Systems: A Cross-disciplinary Approach by Sandro Dernini and Roberto Capone
Link to the book: https://zenodo.org/record/4626179#.YI2Xx9UzbIU
Lluís Serra-Majem, Laura Tomaino, Sandro Dernini, Elliot M. Berry, Denis Lairon,
Joy Ngo de la Cruz, Anna Bach-Faig, Lorenzo M. Donini, Francesc-Xavier Medina,
Rekia Belahsen, Suzanne Piscopo, Roberto Capone, Javier Aranceta-Bartrina,
Carlo La Vecchia, and Antonia Trichopoulou
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8758; doi:10.3390/ijerph17238758
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