Global Perspectives Studies

Resources

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...
Available in: English
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: 2018
Resource type: Presentations
Presentation by Lorenzo G. Bellù at the “Foresight4Food” International Workshop [Montpellier, France / 22–24 May 2018]. In this presentation, key trends and challenges imposing systemic risks on the future food and agriculture are portrayed and discussed...
Available in: English
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.
Available in: English
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....
Available in: English
Year: 2017
Resource type: Publications
This document summarizes the findings of the report “The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges”.
Available in: English Français Español
Year: 2017
Resource type: Publications
This document provides an overview of the report “The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges”.    
Year: 2014
Resource type: Videos
This interview with Lorenzo G. Bellù, FAO Economist, recorded by the first channel of the public Italian Television (RAI 1) in preparation of EXPO 2015 in Milan (Italy), addresses the issue of how to feed...
Available in: Italiano