Overcoming obstacles to effective scenario planning. R01. Aniticipating-the-Future-Citizen. » Future food for thought. Our friends over at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto recently released a report to help people think about possible futures of food for the next decade.
Four Futures of Food serves up a quartet of scenarios plotting out alternative descriptions of how America, as well as the wider world, could be eating in the year 02021. Each is based on a different trajectory that change could describe — Growth, Constraint, Collapse, or Transformation. In the Growth scenario, ‘Consumers can get practically anything they want, whenever they want, and without much concern for cost.’ In Constraint, a food poisoning outbreak triggers massive loss of confidence in internationally traded food and meat, as the global rallying cry becomes “Know your farmer.