Technical material

Poster / The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges

Year: 2017

Resource type: Technical material

This poster presents a graphical overview of the report "The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges". The purpose of this report is to increase the understanding of the challenges that agriculture and...

Available in: English

Keywords: Climate change, Food policy, Food security and nutrition

Poster / The future of food and agriculture: Quantitative modelling framework

Year: 2017

Resource type: Technical material

The poster provides a schematic overview of the quantitative analytical framework used by the FAO Global Perspectives Studies Team in foresight exercises. It comprises the two main quantitative economic models: the FAO Global Agriculture Perspectives...

Available in: English

Keywords: Foresight methods, General equilibrium modelling, Partial equilibrium modelling

Long-term scenario building for food and agriculture: A global overall model for FAO. Brainstorming workshop.

Year: 2016

Resource type: Technical material

This report contains the contributions of the participants in the workshop “Long-term scenario building for food and agriculture: A global overall model for FAO” held at FAO headquarters in February 2016, to inform the choice...

Available in: English

Keywords: Foresight methods, Global future scenarios

The growing global obesity problem: Some policy options to address it

Year: 2004

Resource type: Technical material

After analysing trends in food consumption, overweight and obesity, this paper provides possible remedies to stop and reverse the obesity epidemic in high-income countries, and to prevent similar developments in low- and middle-income ones. The...

Available in: English

Keywords: Food policy, Food security and nutrition, Undernourishment