A platform for a dialogue to be continued. Forward thinking in agriculture and food

Bernard Hubert, Jacques Brossier, Patrick Caron (), Pierre Fabre (), Hartwig de Haen (), Benoît Labbouz, Michel Petit () and Sébastien Treyer ()
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Bernard Hubert: IFRAI - Initiative française pour la recherche agronomique Internationale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Jacques Brossier: IFRAI - Initiative française pour la recherche agronomique Internationale - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Patrick Caron: Cirad-Dgdrs - Direction Générale Déléguée à la Recherche et à la Stratégie - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Pierre Fabre: Direction Es - Direction du département Environnements et sociétés - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Hartwig de Haen: Georg-August-University of Göttingen = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Benoît Labbouz: ENGREF - Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts
Michel Petit: CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes
Sébastien Treyer: IDDRI - Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales - Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Paris

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Abstract: How can agriculture produce food for 9 billion inhabitants in 2050 and achieve the Millennium Development Goals of alleviating poverty, reducing hunger and protecting the environment? In order to take up these challenges and to design tomorrow's food and agriculture systems, research organizations have to define strategies and options, and public policy makers their priorities from now on, relying on foresight studies. Various studies have been conducted to assess scenarios for the long-term future of food and agriculture in the world. Each one has its own objectives, methodologies, and results. Analyzing, comparing and discussing hypotheses, methodologies and results were the objectives of the FI4IAR/CTA seminar "Thinking Forward: assessments, projections and foresights", organized during the GCARD 2010 process. This dialogue, which sometimes led to scientific disputes, proved productive and encouraging. Is it a forum that should be continued in the future?

Keywords: POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE; SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE; STRATEGIE; PRODUCTION AGRICOLE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09
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Published in Perspective (English edition), 2010, N° 6, 4 p. ⟨10.18167/agritrop/00013⟩

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DOI: 10.18167/agritrop/00013

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