Grains for feeding the world: the ICC/AISTEC conference on the occasion of the World EXPO Milan 2015

Abstract

1. Introduction
Grains and cereal grains in particular are a vital resource and a fundamental part of the human diet. Because of that, they play a major role in the food supply chain, and over the last decades the scientific cereals community has grown and has increasingly covered discussions on all scientific facets of this staple food. In July 2015, the Italian Association for Cereal
Science and Technology (AISTEC), in collaboration with the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC), organised an international conference in Milan on the occasion of the 2015 EXPO, to attract worldwide scientists, regulators, industry representatives and supply chain stakeholders to discuss extensively and comprehensively how to use grains to feed the planet and what are the main characteristics and/or challenges to implement that. The discussion fell within the broader framework of the EXPO theme ‘Feeding the planet, energy for life!