Scenario-Based Insight into Food Behaviours, Technological Options and Trade

The scenarios presented in the preceding chapter represent two of the many possible future trajectories of the world. Their merit is primarily to highlight the extent of changes that can usefully be considered for the world’s food and agricultural systems over the next four decades, up to 2050. These changes are not unrelated to one another; future evolutions of consumption and production will interact, irrespective of the scenario. It is therefore necessary to foresee all of these changes coherently and comprehensively, taking all their technical, social, cultural, economic and political dimensions into account.