Year: 2018

Resource type: Publications

This report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change. Building on the report...

Year: 2018

Resource type: Publications

This publication summarizes the findings and analyses portrayed in the report The future of food and agriculture – Alternative pathways to 2050 and provides essential information on the approach adopted to implement the...

Year: 2018

Resource type: Publications

This brief portrays the key messages resulting from the report The future of food and agriculture – Alternative pathways to 2050. It highlights selected key analytical findings that show the benefices of moving...

Year: 2017

Resource type: Videos

This interview with Lorenzo G. Bellù, FAO Global Perspectives Studies Team Leader, highlights main trends which jeopardize the sustainable future of food and agriculture, such as population growth, overuse of natural resources, conflicts, climate change,...

Year: 2017

Resource type: Videos

This animation drives the audience through the challenges that food and agricultural systems face to move towards social economic and environmental sustainability, in the light of recent trends of key drivers affecting them.

Year: 2017

Resource type: Publications

This report sheds light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, provides insights on the issues at stake and outlines possible ways forward....

Year: 2017

Resource type: Publications

This document summarizes the findings of the report “The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges”.

Year: 2017

Resource type: Publications

This document provides an overview of the report “The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges”.    

Year: 2015

Resource type: Publications

This report presents estimates of the additional investments required to achieve the objective of zero hunger worldwide by 2030, through the elimination of extreme poverty. To this end, a twin-track approach involving social protection transfers...

Year: 2015

Resource type: Presentations

Presentation by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Director General, ES Department, FAO at the side event on “Ending Rural Hunger” to the Committee of World Food Security (CFS) 41st Session [Rome, Italy – 13 October 2015]. This...