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The mediterranean diet for sustainable regional development

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Présentation The 2012 edition of Mediterra takes the mobilising potential of the Mediterranean Diet as a basis and proposes a multidimensional itinerary involving sociodemographics, health, ecology, enterprise, geo-economics and citizens’ initiative. Consumers in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin have progressively changed their dietary practices as they have gradually become caught up in the dynamics of urbanisation and the globalisation of agricultural trade. They are adhering less and less to the Mediterranean Diet, despite the fact that it is the basis of their identity and one of the major assets of the region. Pressures on natural resources and the emergence of new private actors are compounding the complexity of diet-related issues. Already the subject of widespread sociocultural and scientific debate and research, the Mediterranean Diet merits reconsideration from the political point of view given the growing awareness of the strategic dimension of agriculture and the crucial role played by food production in the stability and development of societies. This diet, whose health-promoting virtues are widely recognised and which UNESCO has now listed as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, is now raising questions in the fields of environmental responsibility and political action to promote greater regional cooperation.

 

SOMMAIRE

Part one. Origins and construction of the Mediterranean Diet

Part two. Food and sociocultural dynamics

Part three. Environment and biodiversity

Part four. The social responsibility of the actors involved

Part five. Food producers and distributors

Part six. Law and trade

Part seven. Health and food safety

Part eight. Public policies and measures

FICHE TECHNIQUE

CIHEAM , MediTERRA 2012 (english). The mediterranean diet for sustainable regional development, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po « Annuels », 2012, 502 pages.
ISBN : 9782724612486.
Lien : <http://www.cairn.info/mediterra-2012-english--9782724612486.htm>.