EXPO Milano 2015: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life

Workshop and debate themes include:

• Improving food quality and security: the security of having enough food to live on, and an assurance that the food is healthy and the water drinkable;
• Ensuring healthy and high-quality nutrition for all human beings, doing away with the hunger, drought, infantile mortality, and malnutrition that still afflict 850 million people on this planet, and extirpating famine and pandemic disease;
• Preventing the new epidemics and diseases of our time, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, by championing practices that have proven to be effective;
• Promoting innovation in research, technology, and business practices along the entire food supply chain to improve the nutritional value, conservation, and distribution of foods;
• Providing education in proper nutrition and encouraging more healthy lifestyles, especially among children, adolescents, the disabled, and the elderly;
• Enhancing the value of cultural and ethnic heritage as expressed in culinary traditions.