Agriculture and food security are two major global challenges. Situated at the heart of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they raise several strategic issues both for countries and for international cooperation. "Produce more and better" is the recommendation to help address the challenges related to population growth, changing consumption patterns and scarcity of natural and financial production resources. In this context, the reduction of agricultural losses and food waste has become a priority.
The Mediterranean region is particularly concerned by these dynamics, which affect human security, inclusive economic and social development and adaptation to climate change. The issue of waste has to be understood not only from the perspective of responsible management of natural resources and of production and consumption of food, but also of enhancement of knowledge and knowhow.
Mediterra 2016 proposes an integrated, innovative and forward-looking approach to the issues of triple waste reduction (of natural resources, food and knowledge). This new edition offers a collection of shared expertise and local experiences in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on providing solutions for action, and is aimed at policy-makers, development operators, professionals and researchers.
This publication is co-edited by the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), two international organizations working within the framework of a strategic partnership for sustainable
development in the Mediterranean.
FOREWORD
José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director General
Cosimo Lacirignola, CIHEAM Secretary General
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ABSTRACTS
PART 1 NATURAL RESOURCES in the Mediterranean
> CHAPTER 1 Global perspective of natural resources
Matthieu Brun, Pierre Blanc, Halka Otto
> CHAPTER 2 Management of living marine resources
Anna Carlson, Francesc Maynou, Bernardo Basurco, Miguel Bernal
> CHAPTER 3 Management of water resources
Andre Daccache, Maha Abdelhameed Elbana, Abdelouahid Fouial, Fawzi Karajeh, Roula Khadra, Nicola Lamaddalena, Ramy Saliba, Alessandra Scardigno, Pasquale Steduto, Mladen Todorovic
> CHAPTER 4 Sustainable development of land resources
Pandi Zdruli, Feras Ziadat, Enrico Nerilli, Daniela D'Agostino, Fadila Lahmer, Sally Bunning
> CHAPTER 5 Forests: facing the challenges of global change
Inazio Martínez de Arano, Valentina Garavaglia, Christine Farcy
> CHAPTER 6 Plant and animal resources diversity
Badi Besbes, Christini Fournaraki, Francesca Marina Tavolaro, Katerina Koutsovoulou, Grégoire Leroy, Irene Hoffmann
> CHAPTER 7 Energy and agri-food systems: production and consumption
John Vourdoubas, Olivier Dubois
> CHAPTER 8 The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in the Mediterranean
Mélanie Requier-Desjardins, Dorian Kalamvrezos Navarro
PART 2 FOOD LOSSES AND WASTE in the Mediterranean
> CHAPTER 9 Food losses and waste: global overview from a Mediterranean perspective
Roberto Capone, Anthony Bennett, Philipp Debs, Camelia Adriana Bucatariu, Hamid El Bilali, Jennifer Smolak, Warren T.K. Lee, Francesco Bottalico, Yvette Diei-Ouadi, Jogeir Toppe
> CHAPTER 10 The Mediterranean diet: a sustainable consumption pattern
Fatima Hachem, Roberto Capone, Mary Yannakoulia, Sandro Dernini, Nahla Hwalla, Chariton Kalaitzidis
> CHAPTER 11 Innovative postharvest technologies for sustainable value chain
Panagiotis Kalaïtzis, Elena Craita Bita, Martin Hilmi
> CHAPTER 12 Innovation for the reduction of food losses and waste
Biagio Di Terlizzi, Robert Van Otterdijk, Alberto Dragotta, Patrina Pink, Hamid El Bilali
> CHAPTER 13 Consumer behaviour with respect to food losses and waste
Luis Miguel Albisu
PART 3 KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWHOW in the Mediterranean
> CHAPTER 14 Waste of knowledge and human resources
Pascal Bergeret, Nora Ourabah Haddad, Rodrigo Castaneda Sepúlveda
> CHAPTER 15 Saving traditional knowhow in agriculture
Pascal Bergeret, Juliette Prazak, Caterina Batello
> CHAPTER 16 Family farming to bolster human knowhow and resources
Pascal Bergeret, Nora Ourabah Haddad, Sara Hassan, Francesco Maria Pierri
> CHAPTER 17 Enhancing knowledge for food security
Biagio Di Terlizzi, Mohammed Bengoumi, Hamid El Bilali, Alberto Dragotta