CIHEAM and FAO are jointly organizing a technical workshop on the development of Voluntary Guidelines for the Sustainability of the Mediterranean diet in the Mediterranean region. The workshop is taking place on 14-15 March 2017 at CIHEAM-Bari in Valenzano (Bari, Italy).

The FAO-CIHEAM workshop advances the 2016 Call for Action for the Revitalization of the Mediterranean Diet, which was issued, at the First World Conference on the Mediterranean Diet, within the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, and as a follow up to the 2015 MEDIET EXPO Call for Action: Time to Act, issued at the EXPO 2015 Milan.

The workshop will contribute to strengthening collaboration among key stakeholders to consolidate the role of the Mediterranean diet as a lever to improve the sustainability of food systems and consumption patterns in the Mediterranean region, towards achieving the 2030 Agenda’s goals for this region, as stressed in the concluding recommendations of the NENA side event, as well as to contribute to the new CIHEAM Strategic Agenda 2016–2015. Read agenda and Watch the webcast