Future scenarios

What have our Futures Research scanners and weavers picked out as some future trends?

Some of the scenarios really stretch the mind and make you think about the future that awaits our industry, maybe in the not-too-distant future.

Some topics covered in the reports are:

• animals as pharmaceutical factories
• food security in difficult times
• likely regulatory environments affecting exports
• protecting our clean, green, isolated image
• preserving our water wealth
• the Post-global Financial Crash world
• the New Colonialism – foreign direct investment
• the changing face of our rural landscape
• where have all the farmers gone?

It’s vital for a training organisation such as ourselves to look at the possible and probable futures for our industry.

This project involves looking out 50 years or so, but issues are being identified that might require action from Agriculture ITO over the next few years.

What do you think? What future issues do you think are most important and what do they mean for our industries and people?

In my next Outlook – what do we do with our Futures Research?