全球智库信息集成服务系统

• Through the project, the research team developed a global food systems map, a logic model of the FSA, a set of thematic briefs, a map of systemic interdependencies, and a framework illustrating the pathway to support an 'idealised' food system that remains safe and authentic. Together, these results offer a baseline for future horizon scanning activities of the FSA by identifying emerging issues and challenges for global food systems, and suggested means with which to address those with particular relevance for the FSA.
• The map of systemic interdependencies, for example, can serve as a tool to help place specific issues in the context of a wider food systems network and to quickly identify pathways through which they could have an impact on food safety and authenticity. It identifies issues that may become 'flash points' for the FSA in the future.

RAND Europe was commissioned by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) to conduct foresight exercises in relation to the specific aims of the FSA and the wider global food system. The study helped to establish a baseline for the FSA's potential future foresight and horizon scanning work and operated as a test of an approach that the FSA could implement to enable ongoing capabilities in this area. For the study, the research team used a prioritisation foresight approach developed at RAND and previously employed in both a UK and a US policy context.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Approach and methodology

• Chapter Three

  Results

• Chapter Four

  Lessons learnt and recommendations for future foresight activities

• Chapter Five

  Bibliography

• Chapter Six

  Appendices