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

Auteurs

Bernard Hubert
Jacques Brossier
Hartwig de Haen
Benoît Labbouz
Michel Petit
Sébastien Treyer

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00013

Mots-clés


agriculture, human feeding, prospecting, food security, prospective studies, forecasting, analytical methods, methodology, models

Résumé

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

Biographies des auteurs

Bernard Hubert

Bernard Hubert is a Senior Researcher at INRA and Professor at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); he is Chair of Agropolis International (http://www.agropolis.org/) since April 2009.

Jacques Brossier

Jacques Brossier is a Senior Researcher at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, http://www.inra.fr/en/Scientists-Students), former President of the Dijon INRA Centre.

Patrick Caron

Patrick Caron is Deputy Director General of Research and Strategy at CIRAD.

Pierre Fabre

Pierre Fabre is Director of the Environments and Societies Department at CIRAD.

Hartwig de Haen

Hartwig de Haen is a retired Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttigen (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html).

Benoît Labbouz

Benoît Labbouz is a teacher at AgroParisTech, UFR G-ENV (http://www2.agroparistech.fr/).

Michel Petit

Michel Petit is a retired Professor. He is now associated with IAMM (Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier, https://www.iamm.ciheam.org/en).

Sébastien Treyer

Sébastien Treyer is Director of Programmes at IDDRI (https://www.iddri.org/en), the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris.

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Hubert, B., Brossier, J., Caron, P., Fabre, P., de Haen, H., Labbouz, B., Petit, M., & Treyer, S. (2010). A platform for a dialogue to be continued. Forward thinking in agriculture and food. Perspective, (6), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.18167/agritrop/00013