Foresight on Demand

Foresight on Demand

Support to the Mission Board on 'Soil Health and Food of Horizon Europe'

FOD Soil

FOD I Completed
Client
DG RTD
Lead organisation
ISINNOVA
Year
2019
Start date
2019-10-17
Duration
6 months

Project summary

The foresight project Support to the Mission Board Soil Health and Food aimed to provide forward-looking evidence to support the Mission Board in the drawing of a shared vision, making the most of the geographical and disciplinary diversity of its members. Adopting a long-term perspective, the project first offered insights to better understand the drivers, trends and weak signals with the most significant potential to influence the future of soils health and food. This analysis served as background for the organisation of a Scenario workshop with the Mission Board in which three different and plausible scenarios at 2040 were sketched. In the final step, the FOD team built on existing system-thinking knowledge to identify concepts, solutions, and practices able to promote systematic change in the soil health and food sector.

Resources

View on Futures4Europe

Final report

European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Giuffré, G., Ricci, A., Bisoffi, S., Dönitz, E. et al., Mission area – Soil health and food – Foresight on demand brief in support of the Horizon Europe mission board, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/038626

Project focus

Topics

SoilAgriculture & Food SystemsNatural Resources

Foresight methods

Trend AnalysisWeak Signal DetectionScenario DevelopmentParticipatory WorkshopsSystems Mapping

Policy objectives

SustainabilityResilienceGreen TransitionAnticipatory Governance

Outputs

ScenariosVisionRecommendations

Project type

Strategic ForesightStakeholder Engagement