The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in the Mediterranean

Mélanie Requier-Desjardins (1) , D. Kalamvrezos Navarro (2)

1 CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier
2 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Rome, Italie]

While the 2030 Agenda is intended as a global framework, not much discussion has taken place yet to consider what the new Agenda could mean for a region such as the Mediterranean, given its unique features, particular challenges and fragmented political integration. Despite the progress made to achieve the MDGs in the region, several challenges remain to both ensure food security and reverse the degradation of natural resources. The waste of these resources is a serious constraint to sustainable rural and agricultural development while the loss of local knowledge associated to the environment is closely related to their depletion. This chapter outlines the main challenges faced by Mediterranean agriculture and natural resources in the framework of the 2030 Agenda towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), highlighting critical improvements to be made and gaps to be filled with respect to the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It then specifically focuses on the main regional initiatives aimed at rural and agricultural sustainability, before an in-depth discussion on what it could mean and what it would take to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean at regional, national and local levels.

Mots clés: DEVELOPMENT POLICY; DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT; PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES; WASTE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; AGRICULTURAL POLICIES; MEDITERRANEAN POLICY

Domaines: Agriculture, économie et politique; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Mélanie Requier-Desjardins, D. Kalamvrezos Navarro. The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in the Mediterranean. Lacirignola C. (ed.), Graziano da Silva J. (ed.), FAO (ed.), CIHEAM (ed.). Mediterra 2016 : Zero waste in the Mediterranean. Natural resources, food and knowledge, 15, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.175-189, 2016, Mediterra. ⟨hal-02155207⟩