ATLAS MEDITERRA
Atlas MEDITERRA
Mediterranean Agriculture, Food, Fisheries & Rural World
CIHEAM
FEV. 2010 coll. Annuels, 136 p.
Never before have there been so many people in the Mediterranean. Developing in hugely contrasting ways on the two shores, they face economic, social and demographic challenges which, first and foremost, concern agriculture and the rural world.
Farmers, who fashioned the cradle of agriculture, have seen their work evolve and change throughout history. Here, at the beginning of the 21st century, what are the strengths and key features of Mediterranean farming and its products?
While the Mediterranean diet is world-renowned for its nutritional qualities and its conviviality, food insecurity is still with us and malnutrition, which is on the rise, should concern us all the more.
Down the ages, the Mediterranean has been a place of migration of men, ideas and goods. Surely the time has come to build a space for cooperation where agriculture, sustainable development and food play a crucial role.