Food Production and Use. Security, Safety and Sustainability

Food is one of the issue that particularly engage us, especially in the more developed countries; we have only to look at how much space is dedicated to it in newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasts. It has thus been chosen as the theme for the Universal Exposition of 2015 - Expo 2015 - in Milan. There has of course been growing awareness of the links between climate change, the pressure on natural resources, dem ographic growth, the depopulation of rural areas, some populations' access to diets that are richer in animal protein, and how all these elements demand a thorough overhaul of the systems for agricultural production, both in developing countries and in developed countries.