One hundred and two years after the universal exposition held at the beginning of 20th century, the eyes of the world will once again be on Milan.
Expo 2015 represents a great development opportunity for the city. The number of visitors foreseen is around a million, with 160 thousand a day. With seven thousand scientific and cultural events in six months, Milan is going to be the centre of the world.
The theme for Expo 2015 is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”. It will be an extraordinary universal event displaying tradition, creativity and innovation in the business of food. It will bring together many themes that have already been handled by this event in the past, and set them out anew in light of new global possibilities whose common core is the idea that everyone on the planet should have access to food that is healthy, safe and sufficient. 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.
