Project

Global Food and Farming Futures – Lead Expert Group

The Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures addresses the question: ‘How can a future global population of 9 billion people all be fed healthily and sustainably?’

Looking forward to 2050 the Foresight team and the Lead Expert Group examined the global food system and considered issues of sustainable food production, demand, and distribution in an environment of climate change, environmental stress, and competing demands for land, agriculture, and aquatic resources.

Sherman Robinson and Lawrence Haddad were members of the Lead Expert Group. Dirk Willenbockel also worked on background research supporting the project.

The project’s final report was launched in January 2011.

Key contacts

Sherman Robinson
Sherman Robinson

Honorary Associate

s.robinson@ids.ac.uk

Project details

start date
1 January 2009
end date
28 January 2011
value
£0

Recent work

Publication

The Future of Food and Farming: Final Project Report

Project aim: to explore the pressures on the global food system between now and 2050 and identify the decisions that policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more can be fed sustainably and equitably.

1 January 2011

Journal Article

The Future of the Global Food System

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Although food prices in major world markets are at or near a historical low, there is increasing concern about food security—the ability of the world to provide healthy and environmentally sustainable diets for all its peoples. This article is an introduction to a collection of reviews whose...

Sherman Robinson
Sherman Robinson & 2 others

27 September 2010

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