Expo ready to feed ideas to millions of visitors

After scandals, disputes and delays, the Milan world’s fair is finally opening its doors. It is to be the world’s biggest ever event on the subject of food. Switzerland’s pavilion challenges consumers to take responsibility for what and how they eat.  Expo 2015 is starting – well, most of it. Some construction work is set to be completed in the coming weeks and some of the infrastructure has been put on hold for reasons of “scheduling”.  But from May 1, a total of 145 countries, three international organisations and 13 organisations representing civil society will try to respond to the big questions posed by the organisers: how are we to ensure a healthy and sufficient food supply as humanity grows faster than the available resources? And how are we to reach that goal while protecting the wellbeing of the planet from which we get our food?  To see how not to do this, just take a look at the post-industrial zone on the outskirts of the northern Italian …
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– SWI swissinfo.ch