Gérard Ghersi

Food Consumption In 2050

The Agrimonde quantitative scenarios are made up of assumptions on regional food biomass resources and their uses, as well as the resource-use balances of each region and, by aggregation, of the world. In order to be able to quantify the uses of agricultural production per region on the 2050 timeline, we developed assumptions at regional level, first for human populations and then for food consumption per inhabitant.

Scenario-Based Insight into Food Behaviours, Technological Options and Trade

The scenarios presented in the preceding chapter represent two of the many possible future trajectories of the world. Their merit is primarily to highlight the extent of changes that can usefully be considered for the world’s food and agricultural systems over the next four decades, up to 2050. These changes are not unrelated to one another; future evolutions of consumption and production will interact, irrespective of the scenario. It is therefore necessary to foresee all of these changes coherently and comprehensively, taking all their technical, social, cultural, economic and political dimensions into account.