Category Archives: Training Tool

Mediterranean Summer: Programs to Shape the Future of Sustainability

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming summer programs, designed to inspire and educate the next generation on the values and traditions of the Mediterranean culture, critical elements for a sustainable future. The Future Food Institute (FFI) has been at the forefront of integrating Mediterranean identity and values into educational initiatives for over a decade. […]

The National Network of Communities of the Mediterranean Diet

With this training module we present the UNESCO National Network of Mediterranean Diet communities. The National Network of Mediterranean Diet Communities was established by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies to promote, enhance and safeguard the Mediterranean Diet and to implement virtuous paths for the promotion and protection of the UNESCO element. Who […]

MedDiet XNUMX: The New Pyramid of Sustainability for the Mediterranean Diet

The MedDiet 4.0 project was created to demonstrate in a visual and accessible way the four principal aspects related to the Mediterranean Diet and its sustainability. The Mediterranean Diet has long been known for its high value on health and the recognition of UNESCO as an intangible Cultural Heritage. But there are four dimensions, not […]

The Social and Cultural Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet

This video lesson focuses on the socio-cultural sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet. The Mediterranean Diet is a way of life; a complex system of shared knowledge localized in a particular geographic region where biodiversity, food production, nutrition, economy and cultural rituals are closely linked. For its value as a way of life, the Mediterranean Diet […]

How to Obtain Recognition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case of Pantelleria

This lesson addresses the question of obtaining recognition as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, using the example of a recent Italian case. The images in the background here are images of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris at Place de Fontenoy, where negotiations can be seen in course under the auspices of the United Nations last October, […]

The Mediterranean Diet UNESCO Cultural Heritage: The Emblematic Communities

Mediterranean coastline

When UNESCO recognized the Mediterranean Diet as intangible cultural heritage on November 16, 2010, certain locations were selected to give a face to this abstract idea. UNESCO chose the communities they found to be most representative of the Mediterranean Diet and lifestyle, and these communities were given the name ’emblematic communities’. There were four such […]

The Mediterranean Diet as UNESCO Cultural Heritage: Lifestyle

On November 16, 2010 The Mediterranean Diet was officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. When we use the term diet today, we speak of ways to lose weight, eliminating certain foods and arriving at a rigorously limited list of permitted foods, having excluded butter, pasta, fried foods etc. The Mediterranean Diet couldn’t be […]

In the Name of the Bread

The Triad of the Mediterranean Diet, though having ancient roots, has been restyled and redefined by Christianity and is still quite present today. When southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin was converted to Christianity, the fundamental elements of the triad remained. Old myths were not abandoned, partly because of their grip on peoples’ collective imagination, […]

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