This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the
pressures -- threats as well as opportunities -- on the global
agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim is
to help readers understand the context, by analyzing global trends and
anticipating change for better planning and constructing pathways from
the present to the future by focusing on the right questions and
problems. The book contextualizes the role of international agricultural
research in addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda
and beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders, donors
and policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure
that a global population rising to nine billion or more combined with
rising incomes and changing diets can be fed sustainably and equitably,
in the face of the growing climate threats.