We’ve been thinking (and talking, and writing) a lot lately about the forces that are shaping the future of agriculture. There are the more obvious ones– artificial intelligence and mandatory climate disclosures– to the less obvious, like the ubiquity of remotely sensed data and geoengineering. All of these forces, and others like them, are not only acting on ag and the institutions the industry depends on, they’re also acting on one another, evolving and compounding all the time.  

We investigated these forces, and four critical scenarios that they might create, in our latest report, Navigating a Future of Cross-Sectoral Forces, commissioned by AgriFutures Australia. This week, Tenacious co-founders Sarah and Matthew are joined by research collaborator Sarah Mock and Shane Thomas, author of Upstream Ag Insights. Together, they discuss: 

• The unexpected intersections of climate change and deglobalization, and how less arctic ice might fundamentally alter ag markets and trade relationships
• How policymakers might be able to manage tradeoffs between economically and environmentally positive rare earth elements, with the harmful effects of mining in regional Australia
• How temperature and precipitation changes might fundamentally alter production regions, driving identity shifts for growers, commodity groups, and rural communities

Useful Links:

• Navigating a Future of Cross-Sectoral Forces (2024)
• Future Forces – A ten-year horizon for Australian agriculture (2021)
• Upstream Ag Insights
• New Zealand’s BioLumic 

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