A new Mediterranean Diet Safeguard Plan is being prepared for 2023-2027, coordinated by the University of the Algarve, with a network of partners including the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development (CCDR) in the Algarve.
With this plan, according to the CCDR, it is intended to «identify the interventions object of regional consensus and transversal to the territory, structuring within the scope of the Algarve 2030 regional strategy, maintaining the Mediterranean Diet as a key element in the regional strategy of smart specialization (RIS 3 Algarve)».
CCDR Algarve emphasizes that «the Mediterranean Diet is a cultural heritage that we have built over the last 8500 years, being a great challenge for the coming years. For the Algarve, for the Country and for the sustainability of the Territory».
From the 7th to the 10th of September, the city of Tavira hosts another edition of the Mediterranean Diet Fair, which will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its inscription on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICP) of Humanity, promoted by UNESCO.
Included in the program of activities for this Fair, CCDR Algarve, in partnership with the Regional Directorate for Agriculture and Fisheries (DRAP), will promote, on the 7th of September, a seminar on “Innovation in the Mediterranean Diet”, at the Centro de Experimentação Agrária de Tavira (CEAT).
In a press release, the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development (CCDR) of the Algarve states that it is «proud to have participated, since January 2011, in the initial working group of partners that prepared and presented the candidacy of the Mediterranean Diet (DM) », as well as «becoming part of work teams that carry out actions in defense of safeguarding our cultural identity resulting from the contacts that we establish with people from all over the world and the contributions of the various civilizations that interrelated in the Mediterranean space, and to transmit to new generations ancestral knowledge built on respect for natural cycles, the basis of productive systems in harmony with the rhythms of the seasons and the specificities of the territory and climate we share».
The 4th of December 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the approval by UNESCO of the candidacy of the Mediterranean Diet to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, proposed by seven countries: Portugal, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Spain, Italy and Morocco, having the Municipality of Tavira was chosen as the representative community.
Even before that, the 20th anniversary of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the PCI was celebrated, which took place on October 17, 2003 in the city of Paris, which provides for the preservation of “traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and transmitted to our descendants” .
Valuing the DM requires coordinated intervention by various public and private entities, with CCDR Algarve responsible for promoting the Algarve Regional Commission, involving the University of Algarve, regional departments for Culture and Agriculture and Fisheries, the Tourism Region of Algarve, Hotel and Tourism Schools of the Algarve (Faro) and Vila Real de Santo António, Associação In Loco and the Municipality of Tavira, as a representative community of Portugal.
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