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ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION Mediterranean Journal Editor-in-chief of Economics, Agriculture Cosimo Lacirignola NEW MEDIT Director IAM of Bari and Environment Via Ceglie 9 - 70010 VALENZANO (BARI) Revue Méditerranéenne Managing Editor d’Economie, Agriculture Giulio Malorgio Vol. VIII - n. 4/2009 et Environnement Dipartimento di Economia e Ingegneria Agrarie Via Fanin, 50 - 40127 BOLOGNA Tel. ++39 051 2096145 Fax ++39 051 2096162 e-mail: [email protected] CONTENTS / SOMMAIRE Editorial office Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo del CIHEAM via Ceglie, 9 - 70010 VALENZANO (BARI) Editorial/Editorial Tel. ++39 080 4606271 OSIMO OBERTO Fax ++39 080 4606271 C LACIRIGNOLA, R CAPONE pag. 2 Mediterranean Diet: territorial identity and food safety Editorial secretariat Stefania Lapedota: [email protected] ATEF HAMDY, GIULIANA TRISORIO-LIUZZI pag. 4 Copyright CIHEAM - Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari How to Achieve The Required Food Production To Meet The Growing Demand? 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THOMAS BOURNARIS, JASON PAPATHANASIOU, La direction de la revue se réserve le droit de révi- CHRISTINA MOULOGIANNI, BASIL MANOS pag. 22 ser les travaux présentés en vue de les adapter à la A Fuzzy Multicriteria Mathematical Programming model for planning publication. agricultural regions Publisher Un modèle multicritère flou de programmation mathématique Edizioni Dedalo s.r.l. on behalf of CIHEAM - IAM of Bari pour la planification de régions agricoles Administration and Subscription Office Edizioni Dedalo s.r.l. OZGUR BOR, AHMET BAYANER pag. 28 v.le Luigi Jacobini, 5 How Responsive is the Crop Yield to Producer Prices? A Panel Data Zona Industriale - Bari 70123 Casella Postale BA/19, Bari 70123 Approach for the Case of Turkey Tel. 080/531.14.13 (pbx) Fax 080/531.14.14 Comment le rendement agricole réagit aux prix imposés par les producteurs? e-mail: [email protected] L’approche en données de panel appliquée à la Turquie www.edizionidedalo.it Subscription rate TERESA PANICO, TERESA DEL GIUDICE, STEFANO PASCUCCI pag. 34 Italy: 45 Euro, Foreign: 90 Euro A comparative analysis of the coherence of Italian Rural Postal Current Account n. 11639705 Development Programs 2007-2013 in the name of: Edizioni Dedalo s.r.l., Bari Analyse comparative de la cohérence des Programmes 2007-2013 de Développement Rural en Italie Advertising/Publicité Edizioni Dedalo s.r.l., Bari NEVIN DEMIRBAŞ, FIGEN ÇUKUR, ÖZLEM YILDIZ, EVREN GÖLGE pag. 43 Abstract and Index Citation: NEW MEDIT is indexed in: SCOPUS AND EMBASE, Level of Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes of Dairy Farmers Regarding ISI Web Science, CAB Abstracts, EconLit, Food Safety in Turkey AGRIS/FAO database Niveau de connaissance, Pratiques et Comportements des exploitants laitiers New Medit web page: vis-à-vis de la sécurité alimentaire en Turquie www.iamb.it/resouce/public/newmedit ISSN: 1594-5685 EFTHIMIOS MYGDAKOS, CHRISTOS PAPANIKOLAOU, MARIA SAKELLARIOU-MAKRANTONAKI pag. 47 Registrazione Sorghum economics under different irrigation methods and water doses Tribunale di Bari, n. 1546 del 4.1.2002 Aspects économiques de la culture du sorgho sous différentes méthodes Direttore Responsabile d’irrigation et doses d’arrosage Giulio Malorgio Stampa ANANE NNE ARIE Dedalo Litostampa s.r.l., Bari H ABICHOU, A M JOUVE, HELENE REY VALETTE, MONGI SGHAIER pag. 55 NEW MEDIT è associato alla Unione La valorisation du patrimoine et nouvelles alternatives pour un développement Stampa local durable dans le sud-est tunisien Periodica Italiana Enhancement of local heritage and new alternatives for sustainable local development in South-eastern Tunisia. NEW MEDIT N. 4/2009 Editorial/Editorial Mediterranean Diet: territorial identity and food safety COSIMO LACIRIGNOLA*, ROBERTO CAPONE* The challenges of food and human nutrition are close- - Smaller families and household members leaving ly connected to those of world health. If hunger and mal- home. nutrition are increasing dramatically all over the world, - Compulsory education and training by a collective statistics from the FAO, WHO and the World Bank also tell taste. us that another parallel process linked to food is increas- - Overall decline of traditional products in the South, ing inexorably and stealthily, and this is the number of not due to apathy but to fewer occasions for consump- people who are overweight and obese. tion; renewed interest in the North. Considered to be real epidemics, these problems are - The emergence of supermarkets and "modern" foods showing up mainly amongst the younger generations in the shops in the South. and especially in the cities. This modern life-style also involves a progressive aban- The latest WHO statistics indicate that by 2015 there donment of the daily habit and of sociable eating, and an may be about 700 million impoverishment of the skills of home cooking which have obese people in the world. been passed down for generations; these have always been This does not even exclude the southern Mediter- the main features of the Mediterranean dietary model. ranean countries and the regions whose dietary tradi- More generally we can state that the Mediterranean Di- tions constitute the last defence against the dietary shift et is being increasingly eroded due to the globalization taking place. of life-styles and that loss of awareness and understand- Which is to say, the regions where the Mediterranean ing of the problem, together with the younger genera- Diet has been discovered, identified, tested and shown to tions’ lack of interest is leading to an inevitable erosion be a positive factor in the health of the local populations. of the Mediterranean dietary cultural heritage. In these areas the Mediterranean Diet has always rep- This is also confirmed in the report by the United Nations resented a variety of values, combining and linking cul- Environment Programme entitled “The Mediterranean S- tural, socio-economic, dietary, nutritional and environ- trategy for Sustainable Development”. It announces a de- mental factors, which taken together in all their com- terioration of Mediterranean dietary habits and the decline plexity express a Mediterranean life-style which has had of the Mediterranean Diet model caused by the predomi- world-wide success. nance of imported models of consumption. Paradoxically, just as this diet is becoming more popular These considerations should give all the interested par- in the world and increasingly recognised by the interna- ties (policy makers, public institutions, universities, re- tional scientific community, the Mediterranean populations search centres, society etc.) some food for thought, be- are moving further and further away from this model. cause at the very moment that the Union for the Mediter- There are many causes: ranean is trying to revive the Barcelona Process launched - The feminization of the economic life (17% in Algeria, in 1995, the Mediterranean and its peoples risk losing for 24% in Tunisia, 29% in Morocco, 43% in Turkey, 45% in ever their very cultural identity. But the most worrying France and Portugal, 35% in Italy). aspect of this loss lies in the complete lack of awareness not only of younger generations, but also of governments * Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy and society as a whole. 2 NEW MEDIT N. 4/2009 The diversity of dietary cultures and traditions ex- - added cultural and economic value pressed by the Mediterranean Diet is an important re- - reinforcement of the common origins and prestige of source which has not yet been used within the frame- local products and producers work of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership to promote a - improved transparency and protection of the market concrete identity and sustainability of the rural and cul- through definition of quality standards and product i- tural resources of all the Mediterranean countries. dentification within the WTO framework In effect, the constant presence of the Mediterranean Di- - new business possibilities and an important increase et and its values in the world’s media has made the very in profit margins due to the effect of added value concept of the MD into an extraordinary and very effective - increased consumption of Mediterranean Diet prod- marketing tool for the regions, which can promote agro- ucts and therefore greater importance of Mediterranean food, tourism, crafts and culture all at the same time. products on the international market There are numerous motives for identity and links be- - the Mediterranean Diet as a driving force in the tween the Mediterranean Diet and territory, but in order change-over from negative tendencies and unhealthy di- to be used these must be defined and spread in order to etary habits become recognisable. - increased assistance and participation programmes of At the local level, the Mediterranean Diet should be de- the northern and southern Mediterranean regions fined and people should be informed about it in order to - re-evaluation of the landscape and farmlands re-establish awareness of their rich cultural heritage, and - participation in environmental sustainability and pro- at the same time in order to improve the quality standards duction. of products and services to meet new consumer de- With regard to the very question of environmental sus- mands. At the national and international levels the aim is tainability, the MD has been analysed and compared with to safeguard and promote the health aspects and also ter- another kind of diet which is very widespread in western ritorial specificity. This could bring about the develop- society – the North American diet.