Harvesting change: Harnessing emerging technologies and innovations for agrifood system transformation

FAO /CIRAD (2023)  Harvesting change: Harnessing emerging technologies and innovations for agrifood system transformation. Global foresight synthesis report. #76 p.

FAO’s Office of Innovation is working with partners on an FAO Chief Scientist initiative on Foresight on emerging agrifood technologies and innovations, aligned with the UN 2.0 process and the FOFA 2022: engaging all key actors of agricultural innovation systems in the foresight on emerging technologies and innovations to better prepare for alternative futures, feeding it into anticipatory action, and convening the global community for constructive dialogue and knowledge exchange. The aim is to support policymakers, investors and innovation actors in their approaches and decision-making.

The study assesses a selection of technologies and innovations, which potentially could be of paramount importance in addressing agrifood challenges until 2050, as well as the most important trends and drivers that will influence the emergence of agrifood technologies and innovations and their triggers of change, including some regional aspects. The goal is also to build plausible future scenarios for the evolvement of the emerging technologies and innovations in the future with the time horizon of 2050 to inform future-oriented policymaking.

20 December 2023. 14:30 – 15:30 CET. Scaling Innovation: Multiple Models for Taking Impact to Scale by FAO

Webinar Objectives:

1. 
   Share diverse perspectives on scaling innovation, including from UN Global Pulse, VentureWell (a non-profit incubator and accelerator agency), FAO’s Digital Innovation Hubs and FAO Incubator.
2. Facilitate discussion on the difficulties of scaling through the “valley of death”, where an innovation’s continued development is hindered by a lack of support, funding, and general adoption.
3. Reflect on models for scaling innovation, including Public Private Partnerships, scaling through Government, and commercial models for scale.