FoodWeb 2020

* Report: FoodWeb 2020: Forces Shaping the Future of Food. by Jean Hagan. IFTF, 2011

Download report via http://www.iftf.org/system/files/feature/SR1255B_FoodWeb2020Report.pdf

Description

"The "food web" is a set of connections between food and politics, economics, environmental concerns, science, and culture. And that food web is facing some major and potentially devastating challenges in the coming decade. Our global food system relies on cheap energy, water, and labor, and a disruption in any of those areas—as well as the threat of diseases in a globally distributed food—could bring the whole system crashing down.

We need to be thinking about our food in broader terms and with an eye to the future. Which is why IFTF's Global Food Outlook Program is proud to make our most recent report, FoodWeb 2020: Forces Shaping the Future of Food, available to the public (download above). This report, and the FoodWeb 2020 Map, explain what forces are changing the food web. It contains forecasts about directions of change and examples of disruptions in the web, as well as innovative responses to them." (http://www.iftf.org/FoodWeb2020Forces)