A need for cooperation expressed by all CIHEAM 13 Member states

In September 2012, during the CIHEAM ministerial meeting that was held in Malta, the Ministers for Agriculture, in their final declaration, recommended that CIHEAM countries should "contribute, in close collaboration with G20 follow-up group, to the development of an information system on Mediterranean markets linked to AMIS (Agricultural Market Information System) and to share information so as to fight prices volatility within agricultural markets". They also recommended that CIHEAM should "support Mediterranean countries in the development, in close collaboration with G20 follow-up group, of an information system on Mediterranean markets linked to AMIS, in collaboration with FAO, while taking advantage of its competencies and its speciality for country capacity-building. "

Two regional meetings dedicated to food security in the Mediterranean region constituted major stepping stones in confirming the converging interests of countries for this initiative, whose development was entrusted to CIHEAM : the first ministerial meeting of the 5+5 dialogue, that took place in Algiers on Nov, 27th 2013, and the 10th CIHEAM ministerial meeting that took place in Algiers on Feb. 6th, 2014,  CIHEAM, following its cooperation mission in a spirit of multilateral dialogue, will accordingly propose a participatory approach for the network development, while associating closely with AMIS Secretariat located in FAO, Rome.