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Sustainable Food
Future of Food
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Four global food supply scenarios have been developed by the Chatham House
‘Just a Blip’: what if the present high price of food proves to be a brief spike with a return to cheap food at some point soon?
‘Food Inflation’: what if food prices remain high for a decade or more?
‘Into a New Era’: what if today’s food system has reached its limits and must change? (If so - do we need Permaculture?)
‘Food in Crisis’: what if a major world food crisis develops?
FAO Food Price Index (latest)
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Conclusion
"Across the world the responses to change will be conditioned by uncertainties surrounding the availability of sufficient energy, water, land and skills. EU/UK stakeholders need to start planning now to develop new food supply systems that are up to the task."
Chatham House Thinking about the Fututre of Food (pdf)
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