ITALIAN OFFICIAL CELEBRATIONS OF WORLD FOOD DAY 2007

The Right to Food

First International C.I.I.S.C.A.M.Conference

International InterUniversity Centre on Mediterranean Food Cultures

The New Frontiers in the Mediterranean

for Food Security

Mediterranean Diet and Well Being

Food Safety and Quality

Biodiversity and Nutrition

UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA

Rector Hall, Viterbo (Rome)

4-5 December 2007

Organized by

CIISCAM-International InterUniversity Centre for the Studies on Mediterranean Food Cultures

Department of Ecology and Sustainable Development of the University of Tuscia

in cooperation with

INRAN - National Institute for Research on Food and Nutrition

Bioversity International

FAO Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division

Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures

Within the Italian Official Celebration of the World Food Day 2007, the First International CIISCAM Conference will be held on December 4 - 5, 2007, at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Rome), Italy.

The conference is co-organized by the CIISCAM (International Inter-University Centre for the Studies on Mediterranean Food Cultures), and Department of Ecology and Sustainable Development of the University of Tuscia, in cooperation with INRAN (National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition), Bioversity International, FAO Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division and Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures.

The International Inter-University Centre for the Study of Mediterranean Food Cultures (CIISCAM) was established in July 2006 by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the University of Tuscia, the University of Parma, the University of Calabria and the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria. CIISCAM puts forward the Mediterranean food culture – with its manifold variety – as a process of growth, dialogue and progress towards the achievement of a balanced ‘nutritional well-being’ in the entire Mediterranean region.

The CIISCAM will operate as a joining interdisciplinary and multicultural structure among related institutions, with the goal of promoting an inter-university network opened to the collaboration with research institutes, food system organizations (producing, processing, retailing) and international agencies.

The CIISCAM’s aim is also to gain a better knowledge of the ‘Mediterranean diet’ and its evolution over the time, in order to broaden the dialogue among different cultures sharing a common root in food.

The 1° International CIISCAM Confernce intends to serve to re-launch The 2005 Rome Call for a Common Action on Food in the Mediterranean in direction of the creation in the 2010 of the EuroMediterranean Free Trade Area. It has also the purpose to carry forward a set of common actions, in direction to the countdown of 2010 International Year of Biodiversity with the common aim to reduce the increasing erosion of the diversity of Mediterranean food cultures heritage.

In the Exposition Hall of the Rectorate, it will be placed The Ark of Well Being, a pavilion curated by Plexus International. It will present the Act VII of its travelling event “Erosions and Renaissance Show”, addressed to raise more international awareness on the increasing sea erosion of the Door of No Return of the House of the Slave of Goree, in Senegal, as symbol of the all forms of erosions that are dramatically increasing in the living planet.

Preliminary Program, Rector Hall, University of Tuscia

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

3:30 PM Welcome

Marco Mancini, Rector of the University of Tuscia

Giancarlo Gabbianelli, Mayor of Viterbo

Alessandro Mazzoli, President of Viterbo District

Daniela Valentini, Commissioner of Agricolture of Lazio County

4:15 PMPresentation of the International InterUniversity Centre of Study on Mediterranean Food Cultures (CIISCAM)

Introduction

Nicolò Merendino, University of Tuscia

Speaker

Carlo Cannella, Director of CIISCAM, Sapienza University of Rome

5 PMMediterranean Diet and Well Being

Introduction

Lluis Serra Majem, CIISCAM, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Speakers

Alfonsina Bellio, University of Calabria

Manuela Valagao, INIA - National Institute for Agricultural Research, Lisboa

Rekia Belansen, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco

Alessandro Pinto, Sapienza University of Rome

Ridha Mokni, National Institute of Nutrition and Technologie, Tunis

Denis Lairon, INSERM / INRA, Marseille

Amleto D’Amicis, INRAN, Rome

Davide Cassi, CIISCAM, University of Parma

Exposition Hall, Rectorate

7:00 PM Opening of Pavilion Eating Art - The Ark of Well Being, by Plexus International Cocktail with ice cream at the nitrogen by the chef Fabio Toso

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

9:00 AM Food Safety and Quality

Introduction

Gülden Pekcan, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Giuseppe Maiani, INRAN, Rome

Speakers

Rosangela Marchelli,University of Parma

Catherine Leclerq, INRAN, Rome

Lorenzo Maria Donini, Sapienza University of Rome

Paolo Sequi, CRA, Rome

Nicolò Merendino, CIISCAM, University of Tuscia

Giuditta Perozzi, INRAN

11:00 AM Nutrition and Biodiversity

Introduction

Barbara Burlingame, FAO

Speakers

Enrico Porceddu, University of Tuscia

Pablo Eyzaguirre, Bioversity International

Michael Halewood, Bioversity International

0:15 PM The New Frontiers on Food Security

Introduction

Sandro Dernini, CIISCAM, Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures

Speakers

Gianni Tomassi, University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Rome)

Fabrizio Oleari, General Director, Italian Ministry of Health

Representative Italian Ministry of Agricolture

1:15PMConclusion

Carlo Cannella, Director CIISCAM; President INRAN

Exposition Hall of Rectorate

Pavilion “Eating Art – The Ark of Well Being” by Plexus International,

The Rocket Man, taking advantage of the play on words; Someday..,.videos presentation by Bioversity International

Erosions and Renaissance Show Act VII, under the patronage of the Embassy of Senegal in Italy:

The Door of No Return and Matrix, installations by Luisa Mazzullo

Days of Water and Fake Movement, installations by Micaela Serino

Erosions, Art for Food –Food for Art, installation by Plexus 23s

The Seed of Joy, video directed by Massamba Fall Sy & Paola Igliori

The official language is English.

The Proceedings of the Conference will be published in the Italian Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition.