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…
Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…
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Plankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sunlit surface layer of the sea, and their choreography is conducted by sunlight and nutrients. Light only penetrates the…
Dance of the Plankton
From SDG Academy
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Most of marine aquaculture is not sustainable and is actually taking away protein from the human population. Around 1990, the wild capture fisheries leveled off at 95…
Aquaculture and Mariculture
From SDG Academy
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Marine food web structures differ greatly from those on land; plankton build up organic matter through photosynthesis that is consumed by secondary consumers, tiny…
Marine Food Chains
From SDG Academy
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In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have…
Fisheries Economics and Management
From SDG Academy
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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…
Professionals Need to Face Sustainability Issues
From SDG Academy
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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…
Theory: The Mediterranean Approach to Food Systems
From SDG Academy
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In this chapter Martin Quaas gives some arguments for an economic solution to the global overfishing problem. The fundamental problem is that there is a price for fish…
Sustainable Management of Fisheries
From SDG Academy
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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…
Sustainable Farming Systems Under Environmental…
From SDG Academy
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The basics of the Egyptian diet, bread and beer, were made for their main crops, wheat and barley. Honey, dates, and fruit juice were used for sweeteners, and garlic and…
The Origin of the Mediterranean Diet
From SDG Academy
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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…The Role of Higher Education Institutions in…
From SDG Academy
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In this chapter we learn about the enormous contribution of fish and seafood to human nutrition, what the ocean provides us, and how its resources are finite. This…
Our Ocean: A Finite Resource
From SDG Academy
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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,…
Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet and…
From SDG Academy
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This chapter discusses new sustainability careers in the agri-food sector, including robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and genomics. Current educational…
Youth and Food: New Entrepreneurs in the Food…
From SDG Academy
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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…
A Job for the Future: The Innovation Broker
From SDG Academy
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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.…
Professional Profiles: Sustainable Tourism Sector
From SDG Academy
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