The Forum is an operative programme of PLEXUS INTERNATIONAL FORUM APS ETS, Sorano, Meramma Toscana,
In 2015, a Med Diet 4.0 pyramid installation, as a travelling education and communication campaign project, was developed by IFMeD and Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures, with the support of CIHEAM-Bari, to promote the multiple MD sustainable benefits towards its revitalization. Considering that young generations are the majority of the populations in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries, its aim was to encourage young people to make more healthy food choices by rediscovering the MD as a contemporary active, diversified sustainable healthy food lifestyle, in balance with the wellbeing of the person, the community and the planet.
In 2016, at the 1st World Mediterranean Diet Conference on “Revitalizing the Mediterranean diet: from a healthy dietary pattern to a healthy Mediterranean sustainable lifestyle”, organized by IFMeD with CIHEAM-Bari and European Federation of Nutrition Societies, the 2016 Call for Action for the Revitalization of the Mediterranean Diet was endorsed by more 35 national and international scientific societies and institutions[1], stressing the need to revitalize the MD, as a sustainable dietary pattern, as well as a contemporary sustainable lifestyle. It proposed a rethinking of the MD as: (i) a significant part of Mediterranean food systems, from consumption to production, and no longer just a diet, but an expression of the diversity of Mediterranean food cultures and culinary systems; (ii) a pivotal element for sustainable food systems in the countries of the Mediterranean region within the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development;