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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/page/30/
Our foresight programmes generate insights and views of the future, that can be used to provoke discussion, response, thought and innovation.
The potential for greater collaboration … creates a specific role for the state in the network to identify successful ideas and scale them, leveraging its resources to augment the delivery of public services.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/enabling-scale/
In a society where there is a widening gulf between rich and poor, the rich may live increasingly separate lives and provide for their own “public services”.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/hard-choices/
The current governance system is not good at taking into account factors such as the preferences of the non-voter (for example, city-zens), the environment and future generations.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/city-zens/
Entities compete with the state for influence – environmental, human rights, and other activist NGOs – and operate at many levels of government around the world. This new dynamic changes the role of the state.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/changing-role-of-government/
In a network, the state is but one of many stakeholders. Without economies of scale through centralisation, common market-based measures of state performance, like efficiency and productivity, also become less useful.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/outdated-measures-of-success/
We see a compression of timescales within which the state operates. The key question to answer is can governance keep pace with the changes in the rest of society?
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/keeping-pace/
There is a need for increased government capacity to deal with the increased demands placed on the state. In many countries, this has been exacerbated by an underinvestment in public sector capacity over the past few decades.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/meeting-demand-with-limited-capacity/
Education will be equally important as consumer attitudes in the adoption of different patterns of food consumption. Part of the equation must be to pay farmers more for their products.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/education-and-economics/
There has been a global decline in agricultural R&D in the past four decades. There is now an urgent need to redouble the agricultural research effort. The new food producing system has to be science-based with low resource input.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/investment-in-innovation/
While globalisation may create opportunities and increase food distribution the benefits predominantly flow to those with a developed and secure food supply.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/benefits-from-globalisation/
Increased transparency around food availability and security, land use and economic literacy accelerate greater consumption of locally grown and processed foods
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/local-foods/
Although demand for exotic ingredients rises, there will be increased awareness of the environmental consequences of growing non-indigenous crops. More informed consumers choose indigenous produce.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/non-indigenous-foods/
