Sustainability of Wine Production and Food Systems in the Mediterranean Region

Dear Colleagues,

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aim to complement policy with scientific knowledge and orient government strategies toward a new development paradigm that improves the well-being of future generations while ensuring the sustainable management of the planet's natural resources. All this is even more important if viewed in the context of food systems, whose sustainability is paramount for sustainable development. Food sustainability for humans involves the ability, sustained over time, to produce or procure enough food to meet an individual's or a population's nutritional requirements, using production, distribution, and disposal systems that have a neutral or beneficial impact on the environment and ecosystems, and that ideally are underpinned by forms of social justice that can ensure equitable access to food. Hence, we need novel solutions for our future food security and sustainability without compromising food safety to achieve the SDGs including the eradication of hunger and poverty, clean water, sustainable land use, responsible production, and consumption, mitigating climate change, and sustainable life on land and water. Ensuring food security in an environmentally sustainable way is a global challenge and is urgent to develop and adopt nature-based solutions to increase agriculture productivity in an environmentally sustainable way agrochemicals). Together with sustainable food systems, sustainable diets help articulate more concretely and operationally food security and sustainability. Concerning human health, promoting a diversity of foods in human diets, in particular a variety of distinct edible species, has potential benefits from both a public health and a sustainable food system perspective. Food biodiversity provides the necessary nutrients and is an essential component of local food systems, cultures, and food security. Moreover, the effective communication of the benefits and costs of sustainable practices to end-users requires trusted sources of information for both the farm community and consumers.

Submissions detailing original, multidisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged.

Associated with the 3rd Science & Wine World Congress, Porto/Douro, Portugal 14–16 June 2023

URL: https://www.science-and-wine-conferences.com/

Sustainability Subject Areas:

• Challenges relating to sustainability;
• Population explosion and urbanization;
• Unsustainable patterns of production and consumption;
• Impact of globalization on local, national and regional sustainability and stability;
• Degradation of ecosystems and species, and concomitant risks to human well-being;
• Socio-economic, scientific and integrated approaches to sustainable development;
• Development and realization of national policies and international treaties for sustainable development;
• Implementation and monitoring of policies for sustainable development;
• Changing consumption and production patterns;
• Ethical and philosophical aspects of sustainable development;
• Education and awareness of sustainability;
• Health-related aspects of sustainability;
• Sustainable utilization of resources such as land, water, atmosphere and other biological resources;
• Land and aquatic ecosystems maintenance and biodiversity preservation;
• Effects of global climate change on development and sustainability;
• Sustainability tools;
• Applications of sustainability;
• Policies and laws relating to sustainability;
• Sustainability science.

Foods Subject Areas:

• Food sciences and technology;
• Food chemistry and physical properties;
• Food engineering and production;
• Food microbiology and safety;
• Food security and sustainability;
• Food toxicology;
• Functional foods, food and health;
• Food and environment.

Agriculture Subject Areas:

• Crop protection;
• Crop breeding and genetics;
• Crop nutrition, irrigation;
• Crop physiology;
• Pests and diseases, weeds, invasive species;
• Precision agriculture;
• Sustainable agriculture;
• Conservation agriculture;
• Organic agriculture;
• Ecological agriculture;
• Environmental influences on production and products;
• Impact of changing environments;
• Agriculture product health and safety.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Subject Areas:

• Climate Change and Health;
• Ecology and the Environment;
• Environmental Health;
• Global Health;
• Health Communication;
• Health Economics;
• Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment;
• Toxicology and Public Health.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Dr. Paula Silva
Dr. Celestino Santos-Buelga
Dr. Raul Ferrer-Gallego
Guest Editors

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• sustainable viticulture
• sustainable agricultural practice
• environmental protection
• sustainable agroengineering
• polyphenols
• wine
• mediterranean diet
• flavonoids
• public health policy
• healthy lifestyle
• mediterranean countries
• health communication
• nutrition
• welfare
• culture inheritage
• agritourism
• green tourism
• organic farming
• clean energy
• clean productions