Transition Towards Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in a Resource Constrained World 
Reflections on the Foresight Stakeholder Conference, 4–5 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary
La transition vers une production et une consommation alimentaires durables dans un monde aux ressources limitées 
Réflexions sur la Conférences des parties prenantes autour de l’exercice de prospective de SCAR, 4‐5 mai 2011, Budapest, Hongrie
Übergang hin zu nachhaltigem Lebensmittelkonsum und nachhaltiger Lebensm

Abstract

summary Transition Towards Sustainable Food Consumption and Production in a Resource Constrained World Reflections on the Foresight Stakeholder Conference, 4–5 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary The SCAR Foresight Stakeholder Conference aimed to be the cornerstone of the Foresight process by identifying innovative solutions which would enable agri‐food systems to cope with a range of complex and interlinked challenges over the next 30–40 years. This article reflects the major views and themes emerging from the conference. Several transitional pathways towards more sustainable food consumption and production were identified and these might provide a basis for forward thinking in the development of public policies and industry strategies: (a) consider expected resource scarcities in long‐term research priority setting and take planetary boundaries seriously; (b) support trans‐disciplinary research to understand the complexity of agri‐food systems and enhance agro‐ecological and resilience research; (c) give consumer‐oriented research a higher priority in public funding; (d) take a cross‐sectoral approach and make public agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) fit to cope with the new and interconnected challenges; (e) explore new means of policy coordination and consider the trade‐offs between different sectoral policies; and (f) take a long‐term view for both research policy and research priority setting and enable more efficient research spending by strengthening transnational program cooperation. Tackling long‐term European agri‐food system sustainability challenges will require increased investments in research and innovation.

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“…The roadmap produced by this consultation adopts a strong ecologically modern tone (Horlings and Marsden, ) by outlining the need to ‘produce more with less’ (World Economic Forum, ). As recognised in Barna Kovác's () review of the Foresight Stakeholder Conference Transition towards sustainable food consumption and production in a resource constrained world , focusing on supply‐side issues of agricultural production in this way is important, but alone will be insufficient to ensure that the challenges of eating sustainability are met. This position is supported by a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which clearly states that food insecurity is often more an issue of access (through inadequate purchasing power or high prices) than supply (UNFAO, ).…”