The Mediterranean Diet and UNESCO
On November 16th 2010, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at their meeting held in Nairobi (Kenya) agreed to include the Mediterranean Diet on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Mediterranean Diet is an immense and ancient cultural heritage, evolving, dynamic and vital that is in danger. Only the international recognition can result in the mobilization necessary for its safeguarding.
The nomination for the inclusion of the Mediterranean Diet on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO was jointly prepared and presented by the governments of Spain, Italy, Greece and Morocco and was coordinated at the technical transnational level by the Mediterranean Diet Foundation. It is a nomination open to the adhesion of other Mediterranean countries that share this heritage.
