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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From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
Through the analysis of two professions – the food designer and the innovation broker in agriculture – Massari describes how innovation in the agri-food… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This chapter discusses new sustainability careers in the agri-food sector, including robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and genomics. Current educational… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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.… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
Since 1900, agriculture in the developed world has seen large rises in productivity as human labor has been replaced by mechanization and assisted by synthetic… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This chapter looks at case studies around initiatives that have facilitated the participation of smallholder farmers in food value chains, especially the role of… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
In this chapter, Massari discusses how universities, educational institutions, and professors need to adjust their focuses and take responsibility for institutional… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This chapter includes a case study about wheat flow fortification to reduce the deficiency of vitamins and minerals specifically in Jordan and other Middle East… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
In this chapter, Sonia Massari discusses why sustainability issues require new skills and professional profiles. She proposes the idea of sustainability natives, similar… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
One of then negative aspects of food globalization is homogenization. An instance of this is that in all European countries, meat consumption, has increased by at least… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This chapter discusses challenges for sustainable farming globally and in the Mediterranean region. Dynamic population growth poses the first problem; by 2050, the world… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
How do the Sustainable Development Goals define the challenge around food and agriculture for the Mediterranean region, which vary from north to south and in areas of… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 1 September, 2019
Click here to enroll in Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective: https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-food-systems-a-mediterranean-perspecti -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
Demographic growth and changes in diet drive great demand for food and other agricultural products, while food systems are increasingly threatened by land degradation…