The complex food systems in this diverse region demand analysis across the political, social, cultural, economic and nutritional spectrums from landscape to table. But the ability of Mediterranean agriculture to sustain its peoples—and the planet—is being threatened.
These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective, first launched in 2018 and taught by leading experts from the region.
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Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric… -
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In this chapter, Sonia Massari discusses why sustainability issues require new skills and professional profiles. She proposes the idea of sustainability natives, similar… -
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Recently, a high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition has been created to advise the committee on world food security about how to promote more… -
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Through the analysis of two professions – the food designer and the innovation broker in agriculture – Massari describes how innovation in the agri-food… -
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This chapter discusses challenges for sustainable farming globally and in the Mediterranean region. Dynamic population growth poses the first problem; by 2050, the world… -
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This chapter discusses new sustainability careers in the agri-food sector, including robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and genomics. Current educational… -
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There is a high prevalence of non-communicable diseases that are affecting the global population, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, digestive disease,… -
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This chapter discusses how the value chain can contribute to local and regional development. The Mediterranean diet consists of products that range from olive oil to… -
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The gastronomic ritual and cuisine of the Mediterranean is similar throughout. Leguminous vegetables like peas, lentils, chick peas, and oils produced in Syria and… -
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This chapter is part of Module 10: New Professional Profiles in a Mediterranean Context and serves as the conclusion to Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean… -
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This chapter defines the core competencies necessary to create tools that support the chain of agri-food innovation in the Mediterranean, and the agri-food entrepreneur.… -
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The Mediterranean region is the cradle of some very important civilizations, which were and are interconnected in many ways, one of those ways begin the food system; the… -
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Agriculture and horticulture in the ancient Mediterranean were carried out by the ancient Egyptians and the Hittites, among others who are able to make use of natural… -
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Land and water degradation in North Africa are adding stress to regions that are under pressure from global environmental change. Land degradation has resulted from… -
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This chapter discusses the origin of agriculture since early human communities in the Med region started depending on hunting 13,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent,… -
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Since 1900, agriculture in the developed world has seen large rises in productivity as human labor has been replaced by mechanization and assisted by synthetic…