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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES DR17: post-harvest to consumer driver review of the aquatic supply chain. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Driver review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Provides an overview of the key current features of the international markets for aquatic food, and appraises how the future drivers of the post-harvest/consumption aspects of the value chain will interact. Includes wild capture fisheries and aquaculture products. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES El futuro de los alimentos y la agricultura: retos y opciones para la sostenibilidad a nivel mundial. Resumen ejecutivo. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Spanish language version of the executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project (URN 11/547). See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Futur de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture: défi s et options pour la protection de l’environnement au niveau mondial. Synthèse. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
French language version of the executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project (URN 11/547). See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R1: the UK in the context of north-west Europe. Food for thought: options for sustainable increases in agricultural production. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Discusses options that would help to
optimise productivity without unduly compromising the other outputs of land and water use. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R2: agricultural R&D as an engine of productivity growth: China. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Overview of China’s agricultural research system and the impact of agricultural research and development (R&D) investment on agricultural productivity growth in China. Identifies the challenges faced by China’s agricultural research system, and provides perspectives on the future development. Shows how China’s experience may be relevant to the rest of the developing world. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R3: sharing Nile waters: a closed fresh water resource, soil water potential, political economy and Nile transboundary hydropolitics. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Demonstrates that the Nile Basin is characterised by a number of asymmetries, and suggests some policy options and some measures that would address the challenges of increased water demand and the achievement of water and food security in the Nile Basin region. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R4: diets, malnutrition and disease in India. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. A selection of studies is on the dietary transition in India and its implications for child and adult malnutrition and non-communicable diseases in India. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R5: productive capacity of Brazilian agriculture: a long-term perspective. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Contributes to developing an
overview of the productive capacity of Brazilian agriculture to meet the national requirements and contribute to the world supply of food, fibres and biofuel by 2030. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R6: Mekong: inland fisheries and aquaculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Sets the Mekong River Basin (MRB) within the wider integrative economic context of the Greater Mekong Subregion, and explores the extent to which the system is under pressure of change. Provides a retrospective of recent trends and initiatives that have shaped the Mekong Delta, and explores plausible scenarios for fisheries and aquaculture and how these scenarios might evolve and shape regional development for the future. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES R7: agricultural production potentials in Eastern Europe up to 2050 in the context of climate change. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Regional case study for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews existing literature and projections focusing on land use changes and agricultural production in Eastern Europe, and also studies analysing the impact of climate change on agriculture. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR1: crop biotechnology: prospects and opportunities. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
A science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Summarises some of the important areas of activity in crop biotechnology likely to be exploited over the medium term, with an emphasis on agronomic traits. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR10: novel crop science to improve yield and resource use efficiency in water-limited agriculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Focuses on the potential exploitation of novel drought stress biology in both crop improvement programmes and through changed crop management practices. Highlights specific areas of agronomic endeavour that can increase productivity per unit of land area in both irrigated and rainfed agriculture. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR12: societal attitudes to different food production models: biotechnology, GM, organic and extensification. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at consumer choice and attitudes to methods of production, such as biotechnology, genetic modification (GM), organic and more extensive (low
input) methods of production, which contributes to understanding how markets for foods from these production systems might develop in the future. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR13: climate change and trade in agriculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explains how a well-functioning international trading system can support the adaptation to climate change-related challenges. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR14: recent developments in modifying crops and agronomic practice to improve human health. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Demonstrates that that it is scientifically and technically feasible to improve the nutritional value and health benefits of crops. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR15: postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: opportunities to improve resource use. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Compares and contrasts post-harvest food losses and waste in developed countries, especially the USA and the UK, with those in less developed countries, especially the case of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Aims to highlight the opportunity for improving resource use worldwide. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR16B: education, training and extension for food producers. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explains how current and anticipated challenges facing food production systems will create new demands for education, training and advisory services, and linking these services to applied research will help to ensure that providers can access up-to-date knowledge. Argues for creating space for civil society and the private sector, with regulation and targeted public investment to overcome market failures. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR17: the social structure of food production. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Demonstrates the need for balance between producing for growing urban populations and the livelihood strategies of rural people. Argues that a transparent system of research, outreach and learning is critical to producing a more equitable and effective social structure of agriculture and fisheries. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR19: the role of urban agriculture in building resilient cities in developing countries. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Summarizes the available evidence regarding the potential of urban agriculture to respond to a number of key urban challenges, and reviews the perspectives on urban agriculture applied by local and national authorities. Also covers the development of urban agriculture as an integral part of sustainable city development. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR2: the future of animal production: improving productivity and sustainability. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews the animal sector of the agri-food industry, noting past successes in delivering improved productivity to meet demand and the drivers of future demand. Offers predictions on how future demand for animal products can be met through continuing incremental improvements in productivity and new technologies. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR20: long-range meteorological forecasting and links to agricultural applications. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR21: alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews proposed and implemented policies to reduce price volatility in the past, and also policies proposed as a result of current price strike. Argues that a strong research-based ‘intelligence unit’ is needed to provide independent and trusted information. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR22: new developments in financial risk management tools for farmers. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews past experience with public interventions and new directions in financial risk management tools for farmers. Demonstrates the need for further product and institutional innovation and also for a stronger public sector role in facilitating the launch of new programmes. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR23: governance of international trade in food and agricultural products. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Overview of past and future trends for food and agricultural products, policies and international trade rules. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR24: the sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems, and global trade. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at the interrelationship between water and food security. Examines the resilience and sustainability of water and food systems to shocks and stresses linked to different levels and intensity of conflict, global trade and climate change. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR25: a future for small-scale farming. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Discusses the nature of small-scale farming, concluding that the changing development context requires that government and international policies continue to support small-scale farming as part of a diversified approach to global farming in which large-scale enterprise also plays an important role. Also looks at how best to support small-scale farming in a number of key areas in the coming decades. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR27: food security and nutrition: current and likely future issues. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews food security and nutrition and their converse, loosely termed ‘hunger’. Focuses on developing countries. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR3: application of genetics and genomics to aquaculture development: current and future directions. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Describes the application of a wide range of techniques, many unique to aquatic organisms, and their potential to secure aquaculture production in the future. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR30: a review of hunger indices and methods to monitor country commitment to fighting hunger. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Assesses existing hunger indices by looking both at their technical quality and their policy relevance. Also proposes a theoretical framework for the construction of an index measuring country commitment in fighting hunger. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR31: fertiliser availability in a resource-limited world: production and recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Examines the different potential sources
of energy and hydrogen required for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available nitrogenous fertiliser and concludes that methane from natural gas is the most suitable source. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR32: where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)? (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both GHG-intensive stages in the food chain, and GHG-intensive food types. Shows that in addition to technological mitigation it will also be necessary to shift patterns of consumption, and in particular away from diets rich in GHG-intensive meat and dairy foods. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR33: sequestering carbon in soils of agro-ecosystems. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Review of how to resolve the issue of soils of the world’s agroecosystems that are depleted of their soil organic carbon. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR34A: the new competition for land: food, energy, and climate change. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Addresses the new competition for land arising from growing and changing demand for food when combined with increasing global demand for transport energy, under conditions of declining petrochemical resources and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR34B: global developments in the competition for land from biofuels. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers biofuel production and its interaction with land use in agriculture for food production. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR35: engineering advances for input reduction and systems management to meet the challenges of global food and farming futures. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Argues that novel engineering methods and technologies, utilizing observations and models, can lead to greater control over key biological processes and by so doing enhance process efficiency and decrease damage to the environment. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR36: minimising the harm to biodiversity of producing more food globally. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews different land-use strategies in relation to the allocation of area to different land uses that allows the maximum level of biodiversity to persist. Assesses the models and empirical data required to evaluate these strategies, and discusses the most important debates and provide an initial evaluation of how different land-use strategies might be pursued in practice. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR37: soil management in relation to sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Highlight some key issues for soil functioning that require research if food production is to increase sufficiently to meet the needs of the 9 billion people expected by 2050 and makes recommendations. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR38: potential impacts of climate change on marine wild capture fisheries: an update. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Provides a brief update on the scientific literature published since 2007 of the potential impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, focusing on marine wild capture fisheries and the implications for fisheries management to ensure the security of future marine food supplies. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR39: economic analysis for ecosystem service assessments. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers the integration of ecosystem service with economic analyses of such services. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR4: advances in plant disease and pest management. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers whether scientific advances could potentially deliver a truly sustainable technology for increased agricultural productivity, with particular emphasis on the control of pests and diseases. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR45: recent developments in intellectual property and power in the private sector related to food and agriculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at a number of recent developments in the commodification of agricultural innovation and considers some of the suggestions which have been made to respond to the prospect of the privatisation of food. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR46: funding of agricultural and food security research: past successes and future challenges. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Summarises the major changes in spending and priorities that have occurred in agricultural research and development (R&D) funding over the last 30 years, to highlight the benefits resulting from research investments in the public sector, and suggest areas requiring attention to achieve food and environmental security. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR48: gender in the food system. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Highlights the institutional changes that would benefit women, as consumers, producers, entrepreneurs and workers in food value chains. Argues that enthusiasm for transformative technologies as drivers of change within ‘business as usual’ institutional scenarios is liable to push food systems towards greater volatility and loss of resilience, with consequences that will be especially adverse for women and children, and makes recommendations. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR49: children and the food system: global risks and opportunities. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Highlights structural links between the food system and the nutrition, health education and protection of children, and considers opportunities and risks in the aftermath of the recent global crises. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR5: global advances in weed management. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Describes novel technologies for dealing with major problems, including better understanding of weed biology coupled with genomics, novel herbicide resistant crops and engineered weed-competing crops, multi-target herbicides, and enhanced biocontrol agents. These approaches may comprise the components of future integrated packages to slow down the evolution of new weed problems. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR55: innovation and productivity in dryland agriculture: a return-risk analysis for Australia. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Illustrates the research investments that have enabled dryland or rain-fed agriculture in Australia to increase in productivity. Shows that a system’s approach that incorporates crops, pastures and grazing animals is perhaps most likely to optimize the use of resources. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR56: global food waste reduction: priorities for a world in transition. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers priorities in relation to global food waste reduction, particularly in the context of food supply chains operating within the rapidly developing BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and transition countries where economies that have undertaken the transformation from centrally-planned to more market-based systems. Looks at the prospects for global food waste reduction to 2050. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR6: new opportunities to control livestock diseases in the post-genomics era. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Outlines how the recent rapid expansion of genetic sequence data available for both pathogens and hosts can be exploited to develop new tools to improve the ways in which livestock diseases can be controlled. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR7: integrated soil management: moving towards globally sustainable agriculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at the concepts behind integrated soil management (ISM), examines how it currently operates, and suggests the scope for future technological development. Also highlights the potential of ISM to address the challenge of meeting the demands of the increasing world population, while maintaining sustainable agro-ecosystems. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR8: the application of science and technology development in shaping current and future aquaculture production systems. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Focuses on the relationship between technology development and adoption in aquaculture, and the trend of privatization and consolidation of global value chains in fisheries products. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES SR9: recent developments in fisheries science and their prospects for improving fisheries contributions to food security. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Science review for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Summarises the potential significance of several emerging areas of fisheries research and management for helping secure and enhance fish supplies from wild harvesting in support of food security in the developing world. Focuses on small-scale
fisheries. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C1: trends in food demand and production. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Analyses current and past trends in consumption and production over the past 50 years to help identify possible future patterns of demand and supply out to 2050. Examines drivers of change, particularly those that are likely to be important for future demand. Focuses on three types of country: emerging economies, those in regions of low income, and those from high income countries. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C10: volatility in food prices. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Describes the problem of volatility in food prices, the prospect for changes in the degree of price volatility in the future, and what policy options might be considered to address the problem. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C11: ending hunger. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project concerning ending hunger. Considers the difficulties in assessing both levels of hunger and the outcomes of policy interventions to tackle hunger. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C12: meeting the challenges of a low-emissions world. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers how the global food system will need to adapt and evolve by 2050 as a crucial component of a low-emissions world. Covers key opportunities for enhancing food outputs which also mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the food chain, the effect of changing incentives, regulations and behaviour for the greenhouse gas performance of the food system, and the balance between the food system’s contribution to mitigating climate change and its broader objectives of meeting human and social needs. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C13: maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services while feeding the world. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores the relationship between policies for conservation and food security. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C2: changing pressures on food production systems. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores the most important external pressures on food production systems. Covers competition for land, increasingly required for urban development, industry, for growing non-food crops and to protect ecosystems services and biodiversity. Considers the consequences for food production of increased competition for water and for energy and the threat of climate change. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C3: state of play and trends: governance and globalisation. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Considers how globalisation and the institutions that have adapted to it have in themselves driven change within the food system. Focuses on the governance of trade,
the global food supply chain, and international development. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C4: food system scenarios and modelling. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores a number of scenarios and simulations using empirical models that incorporate a number of the important yet uncertain drivers of change that will influence developments in the future. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C5: producing more food sustainably, using existing knowledge and technologies. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Provides examples of where substantial yield or productivity gaps have been Identified. Considers how best to improve the knowledge and skills base of those involved in food production, especially less powerful groups, including women and poorer farmers. It also examines how to address the growing demands imposed on farmers by the demands of global markets and supply chains. Offers a strategic framework for closing the yield gap. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C6: raising the limits of sustainable production. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores how the current limits on food production could be raised and its sustainability increased. Considers integrated farming systems and how these can make the most efficient use of non-renewable resources and on-farm resources, and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological
cycles. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C7: reducing waste. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Presents evidence indicating that concerted interventions by governments, the private sector and consumer organisations have significant potential to influence rapid change in food production and consumption through the prevention of food waste at all stages of the food supply chain. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C8: changing consumption patterns. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Discusses the concept of diets that are both healthy and ‘sustainable’, and considers the main methods available to change patterns of consumption, as well as factors that may act to frustrate such adjustments. Suggests the most important interventions needed to achieve a sustainable and equitable food system by 2050. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES Synthesis report C9: sustainable Intensification in African agriculture - analysis of cases and common lessons. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Synthesises evidence for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at projects of sustainable intensification drawn from across Africa that demonstrate that where there is a political and economic domestic recognition that ‘agriculture matters’, food outputs can be increased, without harm to the environment and in many cases to increase the flow of beneficial environmental services. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Action plan. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Sets out some of the activities of interested parties in using the findings of the ‘Global food and farming futures’ report (URN 11/546) to inform their work. Aims to give a flavour of the considerable breadth and depth of interest in the report and of its potential impact.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Executive summary [Arabic]. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Arabic language version of the executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project (URN 11/547). See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Executive summary [Chinese version]. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Simplified Chinese language executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project (English version URN 11/547). See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Executive summary [Russian]. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Russian language version of the executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project (URN 11/547). See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Executive summary. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Executive summary of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. See URN 11/546 for the full report that explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take. See the browse subject ‘Global food and farming futures’ for related project reviews, reports, case studies and working papers.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability. Final project report. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Final report of the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050, identifying decisions that policy makers need to take to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more can be fed sustainably and equitably. See the browse subject ‘Global food and farming futures’ for related project reviews, reports, case studies and working papers.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W2: developments in the global food supply chain. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Executive summary of the conclusions from a September 2009 workshop on relevant developments in the global food supply chain out to the year 2050. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W3: imagining the difficult-to-imagine drivers of change in global food systems. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Identifies and assesses plausible but ‘difficult-to-imagine’ drivers of changes to food production, supply, prices and consumption, and reviews their implications for future food security to 2050. Also looks at ways in which these drivers might combine to produce large impacts on the food system. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W4: expert forum on the reduction of food waste. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project expert forum on the reduction of food waste. Combines a summary of the presentations, discussions and key action points for the meeting held in London on 23-24 February 2010. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W5: evidence of livestock sector impacts on the climate and the wider environment: a brief science review. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Provides an overview of the current debates in livestock and related sciences on the impacts of livestock production on the environment, focusing on climate change impact and on the wider society. Identifies existing mitigation approaches based on technological innovations, and discusses the state of adoption. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W6: ethics in the food chain. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project concerning ethics in the food system. Addresses our global feeding responsibilities, including the rationale for and scope of feeding responsibilities, who bears the ethical responsibility and to whom. Drawn from an ethics workshop held on 18 May 2010. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES W7: ERS-Farm Foundation-Foresight (UK): long term global agricultural modelling workshop. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Workshop report for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project covering the workshop on 9 and 10 November 2009. Focused on the existing agriculture-focused world models, exploring how well they might work for long-run projections, and how well they can be integrated with climate change models. Covered how these models need to be extended/adapted to analyse alternative scenarios of interest to international researchers including the Foresight project. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP1: understanding and improving the relationship between agriculture and health. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Looks at the direct effects on human health of current food consumption Patterns, the direct consequences to human health of agricultural production practices, and the wider issues relating to agricultural development and sustainability and their indirect effects on health. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP10: Africa can feed the world: beyond expertise to new frontiers of trans-disciplinary science. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Explores institutions as a key dimension in developing African smallholder farming, and reports on mechanisms for institutional change from a farmer first perspective. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP13: trends and challenges for international development. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Overview of the history of international aid for agricultural development. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP2: review of levers for changing consumer's food patterns. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Reviews the levers for changing consumers’ food patterns towards a diet which is both sustainable and healthy. Uses a systematic approach to identifying relevant reviews from Europe and other culturally similar countries. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP5: the top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Identifies the most important questions for global agriculture, which were compiled using a horizon-scanning approach with leading experts and representatives of major agricultural organizations worldwide. Aims is to use sound scientific evidence to inform decision making and guide policy makers in the future direction of agricultural research priorities and policy support. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP6: food security, farming and climate change to 2050: scenarios, results, policy options. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project concerning IPFRI modelling output. Provides comprehensive analysis on the scope of climate change as it relates to food security, including who will be most affected, and what policymakers can do to facilitate adaptation. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP8: agri-food systems governance: an analytical framework. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project concerning governance. Outlines an analytical framework to provide tools to understand food and agricultural governance regimes with reference to food security, which is defined in terms of sufficiency, sustainability, safety and equity. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP9: physical resources and commodities and climate change - part 1. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
First part of a working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Compiles information on the global commodity trade, the sensitivities of commodities to weather and climate conditions, and projected climate change, to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on the world commodity market generally, and specifically the consequences for UK imports. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING FUTURES WP9: physical resources and commodities and climate change - part 2. (PDF) (link opens in a new window)
Second part of a working paper for the Foresight 'Global food and farming futures' project. Compiles information on the global commodity trade, the sensitivities of commodities to weather and climate conditions, and projected climate change, to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on the world commodity market generally, and specifically the consequences for UK imports. See URN 11/546 for the ‘Global food and farming futures’ project report.
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