Scenarios for 2040: #5 Tragedy & mobilization . . . but what’s coming our way in the near-term?
The latest Global Trends edition is to 2040 and subtitled “A more contested world”.
Read About the food system in 2030-50: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
This is our final blogpost in a series of three, giving a retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. The time frame? 2030-50. In summary, our predictions in 2017, scary though they were, were way...
Read About the food system in 2024-30: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
As part of our retrospective on our 2017 horizon scanning project, this is our second of three blogposts, about how project participants saw the key drivers, threats and opportunities for food system in 2024-30, then seven years away, now...
Read About the food system in 2021-23: How smart were our predictions in 2017?
This is the first of three blogposts about our retrospective look at the horizon scanning project we undertook in 2017. This one is about how we saw the world three to five years hence; i.e. now and the next...
Read Food System Transformation #11: Covid-19 and its impact on the food supply network
We’re facing an unimaginable ‘food system transformation’ as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. What can we learn from what is happening already?
Read National Food Strategy #3: The global competition for safe, nutritious food
Our horizon scanning project report, Back from the Future, published in January 2018, contained this stark warning: We currently import 40% of our food. But that this food won’t be available in the future. The “long-term” future we looked at...
Read The Game: Optimism, Reality and Context . . . dancing on the biscuit of opportunity
“How can you bear to spend so much time thinking about it all?” my friend Anne asked. “You have grandchildren.”
Read Our Annual Report: Enlightening & disturbing, an urgent wake-up call
Here’s what some reviewers of our 2017-2018 Annual Report said: “Enlightening and disturbing: an urgent wake-up call for us to take these issues seriously, talk about them, raise awareness and influence policy-makers.”
Read A city is yours: “Only nine meals between mankind and anarchy?”
The Beast from the East last spring, and then the heat and drought of the summer damaged harvests. The media has talk of stockpiling food in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.
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