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This chapter presents food projections to 2030 of the Mediterranean countries in the context of possible developments in world cereal trade2. This first section gives a brief review of the food consumption in the different countries and the dependence of such consumption and the overall agriculture on international trade. Section 2 presents projections to 2030 and section 3 discusses briefly the land and water endowments of the countries. The final section draws some conclusions.
This chapter is largely based on the author’s work for Alexandratos [1] FAO [21] and Bruinsma [13]. The views expressed are the author’s and do not express those of FAO. All historical data are from FAO: Faostat data base (http://faostat.fao.org) and the projections are from the working files for the preparation of FAO [12] and Bruinsma [13] unless otherwise indicated
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Alexandratos, N. (2004). Food Trade of the Mediterranean Countries in a World Context: Prospects to 2030. In: Marquina, A. (eds) Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050. NATO Science Series, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0973-7_17
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