GESDA Anticipatory Workshop - Future Food Systems - GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar

With the rapid pace of science and technology breakthroughs driving significant changes to our world and how we live in it, having agency over our future has never been more important. One of the tools we have for this is anticipation, through which we can use our assessment of what might happen in the future to direct action in the present. GESDA aims to enable this process of anticipation by laying out in its Science Breakthrough Radar the possibilities scientists envisage for the future. In this way, GESDA aims to act as an honest broker between the scientific community and society to encourage open debates about how we wish to shape the future and what opportunities for action can be taken today.

In order for the Radar to keep pace with science and technology, GESDA organises anticipatory workshops across a broad range of research topics each year, with the outcomes of these workshops feeding directly into the next edition of the report.

Anticipatory workshops aim to obtain the perspectives of a wide range of experts in the field; led by an Academic Chair, they bring together leading researchers to facilitate in-depth discussions regarding anticipated developments over the next 5, 10 and 25 years.

The outcome of these discussions will be formulated into an anticipatory brief which will be published as part of the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar® and form the basis of further discussions about their implications and potential actions at the yearly high level GESDA Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit.