Reports and publications
Project reports
The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report and executive summary provide an overview of the evidence and discuss the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all aspects of the global food system.
Executive summary (PDF, 3.4 Mb)
Translations:
Final report (PDF, 8.9 Mb) [order here]
Action plan (PDF, 1.2 Mb)
The Future of Food and Farming: Implications for China (PDF, 1.4 Mb)
Evidence base
13 synthesis reports are grouped around the five key future challenges and provide detailed analysis around the project’s robust scientific evidence base.
Assessment of future challenges
Challenge A: Sustainable supply and demand
Challenge B: Volatility
Challenge C: Hunger
Challenge D: Climate change mitigation
Challenge E: Maintaining biodiversity
Driver reviews
Driver reviews examining changes and stresses on the global food system out to 2050. They were originally published in September 2010 in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions journal.
- DR1: Population (PDF, 769 Kb)
- DR2: Climate change and its effect on agriculture (PDF, 2.2 Mb)
- DR3: Consumption and consumer attitudes (PDF, 419 Kb)
- DR4: Energy and agriculture (PDF, 786 Kb)
- DR5a: Production possibilities: crops (PDF, 611 Kb)
- DR5b: Production possibilities: livestock (PDF, 572 Kb)
- DR7a: Ecosystem services (PDF, 424 Kb)
- DR7b: Competition for land (PDF, 735 Kb)
- DR8: Agricultural investment, research, extension and development (PDF, 597 Kb)
- DR10a: Review of existing modelling and scenarios (PDF, 572 Kb)
- DR10B: Economics of globalisation, specialisation and trade (PDF, 474 Kb)
- DR12: Competition for water (PDF, 2.6 Mb)
- DR13: Urbanisation, megacities and de-urbanisation (PDF, 379 Kb)
- DR14: Marine fisheries (PDF, 512 Kb)
- DR15: Freshwater fisheries (PDF, 504 Kb)
- DR16: Aquaculture (PDF, 1.2 Mb)
- DR17: Production to plate (PDF, 472 Kb)
- DR18: Volatility (PDF, 451 Kb)
- DR19: Income distribution (PDF, 803 Kb)
- DR20: Waste (PDF, 630 Kb)
- DR21: Wild foods (PDF, 433 Kb)
- DR22: Health (PDF, 392 Kb)
Regional reviews
Regional reviews exploring a particular issue using a region or country as an exemplar.
Additional reviews,working papers and workshop reports provide additional evidence.
Additional reviews
- WP1: The relationship between agriculture and health (PDF, 8.2 Mb)
- WP2: Moderating consumer behaviour and demand (PDF, 4.9 Mb)
- WP5:100 questions – overview (PDF, 171 Kb)
- WP6: Food Security, farming, and climate change to 2050 (PDF, 13.7 Mb)
- WP9: Physical resources and commodities and climate change -part one (PDF, 11.2 Mb) ,part two (PDF, 11.4 Mb) Working papers
- WP8: Governance (PDF, 559 Kb)
- WP10: New pathways to innovation (PDF, 728 Kb)
- WP13: International Aid for Agricultural Development (PDF, 504 Kb) Workshop reports
- W2: The global food supply chain (PDF, 527 Kb)
- W3: Difficult to imagine drivers (PDF, 770 Kb)
- W4: The reduction of food waste (PDF, 1.0 Mb)
- W5: Sustainable livestock production (PDF, 898 Kb)
- W6: Food system ethics (PDF, 332 Kb)
- W7: Modelling the food system (PDF, 570 Kb)
State of science reviews
State of science reviews exploring current and future developments in science in fields relevant to the global food system. A selection of these papers are published as separate supplements in the Journal of Agricultural Science (Volume 14, Supplement 1, 2011) and the journal Food Policy. Please visit theJournal of Agricultural ScienceandFood Policy to review these supplements.
- SR1: Biotechnology in crops (PDF, 296 Kb)
- SR2: Biotechnology in livestock (PDF, 104 Kb)
- SR3: Biotechnology in aquaculture (PDF, 154 Kb)
- SR4: Advances in plant disease and pest management (PDF, 284 Kb)
- SR5: Advances in weed management (PDF, 102 Kb)
- SR6: Advances in animal disease management (PDF, 128 Kb)
- SR7: Integrated soil management (PDF, 131 Kb)
- SR8: Modern aquaculture (PDF, 124 Kb)
- SR9: Management in capture fisheries (PDF, 435 Kb)
- SR10: Novel crop science to improve yield and resource use efficiency (PDF, 166 Kb)
- SR12: Societal attitudes to food production (PDF, 414 Kb)
- SR13: Climate change and trade in agriculture (PDF, 204 Kb)
- SR14: Modifying crops (PDF, 291 Kb)
- SR15: Postharvest losses and waste (PDF, 240 Kb)
- SR16b: Education, training and extension (PDF, 386 Kb)
- SR17: The social structure of food production (PDF, 444 Kb)
- SR19: Urban and periurban food production (PDF, 180 Kb)
- SR20: Long-range meteorological forecasting (PDF, 786 Kb)
- SR21: Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility (PDF, 553 Kb)
- SR22: Latest developments in financial risk management (PDF, 436 Kb)
- SR23: Governance of international trade in food (PDF, 415 Kb)
- SR24: The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems (PDF, 240 Kb)
- SR25: Helping the individual: education, extension services, and land rights (PDF, 648 Kb)
- SR27: Developing national food security strategies (PDF, 780 Kb)
- SR30: A review of hunger indices (PDF, 274 Kb)
- SR31: Fertiliser availability in a resource-limited world (PDF, 500 Kb)
- SR32: Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (PDF, 485 Kb)
- SR33: Options of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural ecosystems (PDF, 799 Kb)
- SR34a: The new competition for land (PDF, 861 Kb)
- SR34b: Competition for land from biofuels (PDF, 1.2 Mb)
- SR35: Engineering advances for input reduction (PDF, 100 Kb)
- SR36: Minimising the harm to biodiversity (PDF, 630 Kb)
- SR37: Ecosystem services and sustainable agriculture/aquaculture (PDF, 740 Kb)
- SR38: Climate change and the loss and gain of marine fisheries (PDF, 208 Kb)
- SR39: Valuation of ecosystem services (PDF, 4.5 Mb)
- SR45: Recent developments in intellectual property (PDF, 216 Kb)
- SR46: Funding research on the food system (PDF, 553 Kb)
- SR48: Gender in the food system (PDF, 500 Kb)
- SR49: Children in the food system (PDF, 468 Kb)
- SR55: Arid agriculture in Australia (PDF, 278 Kb)
- SR56: Global food waste reduction (PDF, 2.1 Mb)
