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future_fabulators:food_horizons [2014-04-01 14:42] michkafuture_fabulators:food_horizons [2014-04-01 15:02] michka
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 ====Trends per Type==== ====Trends per Type====
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 +For < 50 years.
  
 ===Social=== ===Social===
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-   * Most prevalent religions & related food regimes 
  
 ===Technological=== ===Technological===
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 +   * Appearance of luxury technofood (like the lab-grown hamburger).
 +   * Development of resource-efficient agriculture techniques (agro-ecological systems) both large-sacle (bio-sourced fertilizers, methanisation...) and small-scale (permaculture).
 +   * Increase of GMO-food & seeds market share.
  
 ===Environmental=== ===Environmental===
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 +   * Massive pollution of water, soil and atmosphere.
 +   * Decrease of soil fertility
 +   * Increase of desertification
 +   * Climate change
 +     * Increase of Extreme Climatic Events, f. i. Floods & Droughts > localized high food scarcity.
 +     * Change in seasonal patterns and average climatic conditions > change in available food crops.
 +   * Decrease of Biodiversity > Decrease of available food crops.
  
 ===Economic=== ===Economic===
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 +   * Increased globalization of economy
 +     * Hyper-specialisation of food crops grown on a given territory > what happens when transport becomes more expensive ?
 +   * Increased financiarisation of economy
 +     * Adverse effects of speculation on food prices > Reduction of food availability and diversity for most of the world population > Adverse health effects such as obesity, cancers & neurodegenerative diseases due to massive exposition to polluted food
 +   * Increasing inequities in personal wealth > Reduction of food availability and diversity for most of the world population > Adverse health effects such as obesity, cancers & neurodegenerative diseases due to massive exposition to polluted food
  
 ===Demographic=== ===Demographic===
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 +   * Increase of global population > More food needed
 +   * Increase of urban population
 +     * Massive amount of energy needed to bring food to urban citizens > Increase resource depletion
 +     * Increased urban pressure on neighboring fertile soils > Reducing availability of fertile soils
  
 ===Cultural=== ===Cultural===
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 +   * Most prevalent religions & related food regimes (Pork-free Islam & Bee-free hinduism ?)
 +   * Most of the food still produced industrially (Nestlé, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Exki...)
 +   * Moderate rise of Slow Food & Organic Food movements
  
 ===Political=== ===Political===
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 +   * Increase of far-right, nationalist and identity-focused movements > back to traditional cooking & reduced diversity of cooking
 +   * Increase of patenting & reduction of authorized varieties > reduction of animal & plant species available for cooking.
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