The programs and celebratory activities will start tomorrow with the “Unesco Mediterranean Diet. 10 years of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity "
Mipaaf, Bellanova: “Commitment to create the Office for the Mediterranean Diet at the Mipaaf. In 2021, institutional communication program also in view of Expo Dubai "
Ten years ago, on November 16, 2010, in Nairobi in Kenya, the Intergovernmental Committee of the Unesco Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage approved the inclusion of the Mediterranean Diet in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
In this way, UNESCO recognized the value of practices stratified over time, transmitted from generation to generation in many of the countries bordering the Mediterranean, underlining how the Mediterranean Diet, a modern definition for an ancient practice and history, was " much more than just a list of foods. The Mediterranean Diet promotes social interaction, since the common meal is the basis of the social customs and holidays shared by a given community, and has given rise to a remarkable body of knowledge, songs, maxims, tales and legends. It is based on respect for the territory and biodiversity, and guarantees the conservation and development of traditional activities and trades linked to fishing and agriculture in the Mediterranean communities ”.
“For our country”, says Minister Bellanova, “that is an important date. The recognition of a distinctiveness.
Since that moment Made in Italy and the Mediterranean diet have had the same flavors, the same aromas, the same charm in the world. If today we celebrate it as it deserves, it is also to reaffirm that the heritage of the Mediterranean Diet must be protected, safeguarded, protected. This is why we are committed to creating the Office for the Mediterranean Diet at our Ministry; promote and disseminate the principles and reasons of the Mediterranean Diet through a specific web portal; implement in 2021 an institutional communication program on the themes of the Mediterranean Diet also in view of Expo Dubai; develop initiatives on the Mediterranean diet and nutrition education in schools and universities also with the support of CREA / Alimentation.
A significant commitment. Because we are convinced of the extraordinary strength and relevance of this heritage. And because we believe that passing it on to the new generations is a necessary task that we do not want to shirk ”.
The broad range of topics on which the day promoted, via videoconference, tomorrow, November 16, by Mipaaf, Mattm, Mibact, Maeci, Ministry of Health, Miur, Italian National Committee for Unesco is all the more understandable , on the theme: “Unesco Mediterranean Diet. 10 years of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ”, which opens the celebrations for the ten years of UNESCO recognition of the Mediterranean Diet ?.
Moderated by Donatella Bianchi, the proceedings will open with the institutional greetings of the ministers Teresa Bellanova, Sergio Costa, Dario Franceschini, Luigi di Maio, Roberto Speranza, Lucia Azzolina, and then continue with the interventions of Franco Bernabé, President of the Italian Commission for Unesco, on "Unesco as a development factor"; Pier Luigi Petrillo, Unesco Chair Professor and member of the Ich Unesco Assessment Body on “The Mediterranean diet, a heritage for humanity. Origins and current events "; Stefano Pisani, Mayor of Pollica, Unesco Mediterranean Diet Emblematic Community, on “The role of communities for safeguarding the Mediterranean Diet”; Elisabella Moro, Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Suon Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, on "The Mediterranean diet between lifestyle and cultural identity".