Recording is available here
This session addressed a key question: what is the active role that consumers can play in shaping more sustainable food systems and what are the implications for rethinking Mediterranean diets? It focused on highlighting practices and approaches that aim at addressing consumers’ needs highly relevant to the sustainability of food systems, such as for instance:
- to access healthy, affordable and safe food;
- to access adequate information enabling informed choices through appropriate tools (including digital tools);
- to have their views represented in decision-making processes;
- and to be educated on the environmental, social, and economic consequences of their choices, while contributing to shaping the offer of more sustainable products.
Welcome: Giuseppe Provenzano
Project Manager, Higher Education and Research
Division, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
Keynote remarks
Setting the scene: Multi-stakeholder efforts to engage consumers in rethinking Mediterranean diet - Hamid El Bilali
Senior Researcher, CIHEAM
Panel:
- Moderator: Giuseppe Provenzano Project Manager, Higher Education and Research Division, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)
- Ferdi Fero Albanian Consumers Association (ACA)
- Darine Dogui Director of Studies, Research, Analysis and Comparative Trials, Tunisian National Institute for Consumer Affairs
- Florence Tartanac Senior Officer, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO
- Marco De La Feld
Head of R&D Unit ENCO srl,
[PRIMA project SWITCHtoHEALTHY]
The SWITCHtoHEALTHY project generates a dietary behaviour change in the direction of a greater adherence to the Mediterranean food model - Aravella Zachariou Head, Unit for Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development (EESD), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus
- Laura De Matteis Food Systems Expert, Food systems and Food Safety Division, FAO
Background
SFS-MED Platform
This platform is a multi-stakeholder initiative for Sustainable Food Systems in the Mediterranean.
- A forum for dialogue and collaboration on priority themes for sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean, acting as a neutral facilitator of multi-stakeholder exchange to enhance policy coherence, build trust, and promote the effective implementation of actions.
- An ideal setting to rebalance sustainability and finance. Dedicated support for the co-creation of flagship projects and investment proposals will enable actors in Mediterranean food systems to access funding and scale up sustainable investments.
- A network for strengthening knowledge sharing and capacity building related to sustainable food consumption and production across the Mediterranean.
- A catalyst of opportunities for regional cooperation for data sharing, science diplomacy, and the advancement of green and blue practices, as well as inclusive and digital innovation.
The SFS-MED webinar series are a series of technical webinars is
organized to leverage the knowledge
and expertise of a network of researchers, development practitioners and
decision-makers. The webinars aim at
strengthening knowledge sharing and
stimulating debate around themes relevant to food systems transformation in the
Mediterranean, peer exchange about recent research and study findings, as well
as showcasing successful and inspiring
actions to promote the operationalization
of food systems approaches.
PRIMA project SWITCHtoHEALTHY
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