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The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 444 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-136639-4

Series title The Future of Food and Agriculture

Series number No. 3

Synopsis (short abstract) This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive future, by building on both previous reports in the same series as well as on a comprehensive corporate strategic foresight exercise that also nurtured FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31. It analyses major drivers of agrifood systems and explores how their trends could determine alternative futures of agrifood, socioeconomic and environmental systems. The fundamental message of this report is that it is still possible to push agrifood systems along a pattern of sustainability and resilience, if key “triggers” of transformation are properly activated. However, strategic policy options to activate them will have to “outsmart” vested interests, hidden agendas and conflicting objectives, and trade off short-term unsustainable achievements for longer-term sustainability, resilience and inclusivity.

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FAO. 2022. The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation. The Future of Food and Agriculture, no. 3. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0959en

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