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Global perspectives
Major report, 2022
This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive future, by building on both previous reports in the same series as well as on a...
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Summary version
Major report, 2022
This is the summary version of the FAO corporate report "The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation", which aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards...
Alternative pathways to 2050
Major report, 2018
This report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change. Building on the...
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Summary version
Major report, 2018
This publication summarizes the findings and analyses portrayed in the report The future of food and agriculture – Alternative pathways to 2050 and provides essential information on the approach adopted to implement the underlying foresight...
Trends and challenges
Major report, 2017
The report sheds some light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, and provides some insights as to what is at stake and...
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Summary version
Major report, 2017
This report presents a summary of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are currently facing and will face in the 21st century. Analysis of 15 global trends provides insight into what is at stake...
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ESA Working Paper 16-06
Working paper, 2016
This document provides a full description of FAO’s partial equilibrium modelling system known as GAPS. GAPS has been developed by FAO to study the development of global food markets in the long-term and to assess...
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The critical role of investments in social protection and agriculture
Major report, 2015
This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both the Sustainable Development...
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ESA Working Paper 12-03
Working paper, 2012
Current UN projections indicate that world population could increase by 2.25 billion people from today’s levels, reaching 9.15 billion by 2050. At the global level, agricultural production and consumption in 2050 are projected to be...
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Book/book chapter, 2011
Fuelled by the turbulence of world agricultural markets, the debate on relations among agriculture, food security, natural resources, population growth and economic development has been revamped over the last few years. how are growth prospects...
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