scholarly journals Correction to: The Potato of the Future: Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Agri-food Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Devaux ◽  
Jean-Pierre Goffart ◽  
Peter Kromann ◽  
Jorge Andrade-Piedra ◽  
Vivian Polar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Correction to: The Potato of the Future: Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Devaux ◽  
Jean-Pierre Goffart ◽  
Peter Kromann ◽  
Jorge Andrade-Piedra ◽  
Vivian Polar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Foresight for income and employment: What can we learn for agricultural research for development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Kruseman ◽  
Ahmad Dermawan ◽  
Mandiaye Diagne ◽  
Dolapo Enahoro ◽  
Aymen Frija ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Agricultural Income ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
The Future

Challenges related to poverty, hunger, nutrition, health, and the environment are widespread and urgent. One way to stress the urgency of making the right decisions about the future of the global food systems now is to better understand and more clearly articulate the alternative scenarios that food systems face. Developing, synthesizing, and presenting such alternatives to decision makers in a clear way is the ultimate goal of e CGIAR Foresight team.No single source of information focuses regularly and systematically on the future of food and agriculture, and challenges facing developing countries. Our work aims to fill that gap with a focus on agricultural income and employment.group systematically collects information about past, on-going and planned foresight activities across CGIAR centers and their partners, spanning the global agricultural research for development arenaWe present a comprehensive overview and synthesis of the results of relevant foresight research, which through the tagging with metadata allows for customized investigations in greater detail. The cross-cutting nature of this work allows for a more comprehensive picture and assessments of possible complementarities/trade-offs.Potential users of this report and associated activities include CGIAR science leaders and scientists as well as the broader research community, national and international development partners, national governments and research organizations, funders, and the private sector.The approach developed by the CGIAR foresight group is used to make foresight study results accessible across organizations and domains in order to aid policy and decision makers for strategic planning. The approach allows visualization of both the available information across multiple entry points as well as the identification of critical knowledge gaps.

scholarly journals The future of human malnutrition: rebalancing agency for better nutritional health

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan C. K. Wells ◽  
Akanksha A. Marphatia ◽  
Gabriel Amable ◽  
Mario Siervo ◽  
Henrik Friis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unhealthy Behaviour ◽  
Future Burden

AbstractThe major threat to human societies posed by undernutrition has been recognised for millennia. Despite substantial economic development and scientific innovation, however, progress in addressing this global challenge has been inadequate. Paradoxically, the last half-century also saw the rapid emergence of obesity, first in high-income countries but now also in low- and middle-income countries. Traditionally, these problems were approached separately, but there is increasing recognition that they have common drivers and need integrated responses. The new nutrition reality comprises a global ‘double burden’ of malnutrition, where the challenges of food insecurity, nutritional deficiencies and undernutrition coexist and interact with obesity, sedentary behaviour, unhealthy diets and environments that foster unhealthy behaviour. Beyond immediate efforts to prevent and treat malnutrition, what must change in order to reduce the future burden? Here, we present a conceptual framework that focuses on the deeper structural drivers of malnutrition embedded in society, and their interaction with biological mechanisms of appetite regulation and physiological homeostasis. Building on a review of malnutrition in past societies, our framework brings to the fore the power dynamics that characterise contemporary human food systems at many levels. We focus on the concept of agency, the ability of individuals or organisations to pursue their goals. In globalized food systems, the agency of individuals is directly confronted by the agency of several other types of actor, including corporations, governments and supranational institutions. The intakes of energy and nutrients by individuals are powerfully shaped by this ‘competition of agency’, and we therefore argue that the greatest opportunities to reduce malnutrition lie in rebalancing agency across the competing actors. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems and individuals illustrates our conceptual framework. Efforts to improve agency must both drive and respond to complementary efforts to promote and maintain equitable societies and planetary health.

scholarly journals «Agriculture 4.0» – a project of the future or a platform for responding to major challenges and threats to national security

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Yulia A. Romanova ◽  
◽  
Elena V. Levina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
National Security ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Synthetic Protein ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
New Type ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
Protein Cell

The purpose of the article is to study «Agriculture 4.0» as a project of the future or a platform for responding to major challenges and threats to national security. The methodology of this study was based on the methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization and systematization, as well as the structural-logical approach, analysis of open empirical statistical data and the graphical method. Results. The article examines the theoretical and practical foundations of the directions of digital development of agriculture. The necessity of transformation of modern techniques and technologies for managing the development of agriculture on the principles of sustainable development into a qualitatively new type – «Agriculture 4.0», digital economy or smart agriculture is substantiated. This paper focuses on four main technologies: the Internet of Things, blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence. Conclusions. The Agriculture 4.0 project is comprised of a variety of existing or emerging technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, synthetic protein, cell agriculture, gene editing technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain and machine learning, which could have overarching impact on future agricultural and food systems. It can ensure the creation of economic, environmental and social benefits and be a response to challenges and threats to national security.

scholarly journals The future(s) of digital agriculture and sustainable food systems: An analysis of high-level policy documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 101183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Lajoie-O'Malley ◽  
Kelly Bronson ◽  
Simone van der Burg ◽  
Laurens Klerkx
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Agriculture ◽  
High Level

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the future of food systems at the UNFCCC

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. e309-e311
Author(s):  
Sylvia Gralak ◽  
Luke Spajic ◽  
Iris Blom ◽  
Omnia El Omrani ◽  
Jacqueline Bredhauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Of Food

THE FUTURE OF MEAT AS A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM

1982 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
R. B. BUCKLAND
Keyword(s):  
Meat Quality ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Broiler Chicken ◽  
Food System ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Future ◽  
Total Meat ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Sustainable Food System

The theme of this year's Canadian Society of Animal Science Symposium was chosen in conjunction with the Agricultural Institute of Canada who selected "Sustainable Food Systems" as the theme for their Conference. In discussing the future of meat as a sustainable food system, three areas have been selected for attention: (1) grading systems and their effectiveness in identifying superior carcasses; (2) the challenges in improving meat quality and how improvements with respect to growth rate in the areas of genetics, nutrition and management have affected meat quality; (3) the future consumption patterns of meat and how these will be affected by other changes that are taking place regarding our eating habits.In setting the background for these papers, I will briefly mention a few of the important trends that have taken place in Canada with respect to meat consumption over the past 17 years. I will not attempt to interpret these changes in this introduction. Total meat consumption, excluding fish (which averages about 2 kg/yr/capita) has increased from 76.2 kg per capita per year in 1963 to a high of 99.6 kg in 1976 with the value for 1980 being 97.4 kg. Beef consumption has followed quite closely the pattern of total meat consumption with the per capita consumption being 33.7 kg in 1963, rising to 51.4 kg in 1976, but then declining much more sharply than did total meat consumption to a figure of 39.9 kg in 1980. This drop in consumption of beef has been almost completely compensated for by increases in pork and broiler chicken consumption. Pork consumption was 23.0 kg per capita in 1963 and it changed very little, except for fluctuations, up until 1976 when the figure was 25.2 kg but, since then, it has increased rapidly to an all-time high figure of 32.4 kg in 1980 which may be a cycle peak, a new trend or a combination of both. Over the years, broiler chicken meat has seen the greatest increase in consumption going from 8.9 kg per capita in 1963 to 14.6 kg in 1976 and for 1980, the figure is 17.3 kg. Veal consumption has declined from about 3 kg per capita in 1963 to 1.4 kg in 1980 with mutton and lamb showing a similar decline from just under 2 kg in 1963 to 0.8 kg in 1980. Turkey consumption has held relatively steady at about 4 kg per capita while fowl consumption showed a decline from about 2 kg in 1963 to 1.3 kg in 1980.

Agri-food scholarship: Past, present and future contributions to Australasian rural sociology

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110096
Author(s):  
Kiah Smith ◽  
Geoffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Food System ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The Future

The future of food and agriculture in Australasia will be defined by multiple social, economic, political and environmental tensions – with climate change and social inequalities playing a central role in the re-imagining of food systems in crisis. This article argues that rural sociology will continue to be well-served by the sociological research into the farming and food industries undertaken by antipodean scholars – especially those from Australia and New Zealand where agri-food scholarship has flourished. Analyses of the future dynamics of rural social/economic change, natural resource management (including land, water and minerals), new relations of work, labour and identity, emerging agricultural technologies, Indigenous and post-colonial politics, and food system governance will benefit from agri-food studies’ insights into agrarian transformation and governance, social and environmental sustainability, health and wellbeing, and the growth of resistance and alternatives.

Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Ariella Helfgott ◽  
Joost Vervoort
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Global Food
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