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The Future of Food and Agriculture After COVID: Disruptive Trends and Technology That Will Shape the Post-Pandemic World

Major disruptive changes are coming to the future of food and agriculture. Trends and technologies in place before the COVID-19 pandemic have been accelerated. Automation, robotics, and blockchain will be critical elements of a disruptive future for food and agriculture. But even more important disruptions will come from technologies pushing to meet the rising global demand for calories and protein. With the global population likely to increase by 2 around billion through 2050, the future of agriculture is fraught with challenges that we must rise to meet. In The Future of Food and Agriculture After COVID, the top-ranked economist and futurist Jason Schenker shares his visions for the future ahead.Jason Schenker is the Chairman of The Futurist Institute, which trains leaders to incorporate new and emerging trend risks and opportunities into long-term strategic planning. The Futurist Institute offers the Futurist and Long-Term Analyst – FLTA – designation and certification program. As President of Prestige Economics, Bloomberg News has ranked Jason the #1 forecaster in the world in 25 different categories since 2011, including for his forecasts of agricultural prices, gold prices, crude oil prices, natural gas prices, industrial metals prices, the euro, the pound, U.S. jobs, and U.S. new home sales. Jason is the author of 29 books, including The Future After COVID, Recession-Proof Career Strategies After COVID, Futureproof Supply Chain, and Jobs for Robots. Since 2004, Jason has been a frequent keynote speaker on the lecture circuit as well as a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg Television.Read more

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