FoodWeb 2020: Forces Shaping the Future of Food

Downloads: SR1255B_FoodWeb2020Report.pdf

The "food web" is a set of connections between food and politics, economics, environmental concerns, science, and culture. And that food web is facing some major and potentially devastating challenges in the coming decade. Our global food system relies on cheap energy, water, and labor, and a disruption in any of those areas—as well as the threat of diseases in a globally distributed food—could bring the whole system crashing down.

We need to be thinking about our food in broader terms and with an eye to the future. Which is why IFTF's Global Food Outlook Program is proud to make our most recent report, FoodWeb 2020: Forces Shaping the Future of Food, available to the public (download above). This report, and the FoodWeb 2020 Map, explain what forces are changing the food web. It contains forecasts about directions of change and examples of disruptions in the web, as well as innovative responses to them.
In addition to this release Rod Falcon, the director of our Health Horizons program, will be giving the keynote address at the“Global Trends Impacting Food & Agriculture” session at Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Executive Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, April 14. Drawing on the same research that went into the map, as well as more than a decade of experience in futures thinking, Rod will explain how we can create resilient strategies to the challenges that the global food web faces.

To learn more about the Global Food Outlook Program please contact Dawn Alva at dalva@iftf.org.
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