Event
Imagine food systems 2100
On 20 November, three teams of researchers will present their visions for the future of our food systems. External experts will share their thoughts, and there will be an interactive discussion with the audience. Join us to be inspired and weigh in on the food systems of the future.
What will our food systems look like in 2100? What is your vision on what our food systems should look like and how can those visions be achieved? These questions were the core of an open call for Wageningen researchers by the KB (knowledge investment fund) Food and Water Security to submit expressions of interest. The call resulted in ten inspiring proposals, each of them highlighting the challenges our EU food system currently faces in their own way and proposing creative pathways and solutions to address these challenges. Three teams were selected to further develop their vision for a food system for 2100 and design scenarios and future food system narratives.
| 13:00 | The room will open |
| 13:30 | Introduction to the event |
| 13:45-15:00 | Presentation of three Food System Visions |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:00 | Reflections on the presentations by two non-Wageningen experts |
| 16:00-16:50 | Discussion with the audience, including interactive stocktaking of dilemmas and challenges for future food systems |
| 16:50-17:00 | Wrap-up and conclusion |
| 17:00 | Drinks and networking |
The proposals
A diverse, healthy and just food future for Europe applies a process of “collectively painting” (co-creating) Europe’s food future, in which the process of painting is perhaps more important than the result;
Food system GPT in the era of full digitalisation with generative AI presents a digitalised world with federated data infrastructure and machine learning technologies to forecast food system parameters to illustrate how a fully digitalised food system can look like;
Adios avocados builds on scenario thinking, outlines the dilemmas of a utopian and dystopian scenario and, in an interactive way (in a dialogue) looks for actions to tackle the challenges and dilemmas.