Purpose

This collaborative project explores how the agricultural resources as raw material for both the food/feed, fuel and other non-food sectors might shape the European business, societal and regulatory environment in the global context over the next 20 years.

Relying on the disciplined scenario planning methodology, it investigates how a large number of stakeholders might react to this systemic change process.

The project envisages delivering a set of future scenarios, each reflecting how conflicting powers may interact to arrive at a new set of values and opinions that will define the role of agri-industrial raw materials and associated opportunities for value creation, in the European society 20 years from now.

Key questions driving the process are:

• How will the choice of using agri-industrial raw materials either as product, food or as fuel transform the future business and regulatory environment?
• What opportunities for economic, environmental and societal value creation will exist as a result of this vast and complex change?

This project is designed to provide a comprehensive planning context for strategic decision making by various actors:

• the industry, particularly agriculture, food, energy, fermentation and other agri-industrial product dependent players
• international governmental organisations , public authorities and policy makers
• civil society and NGO’s