Early warnings and predictable surprises Preparing for the future - How to prepare strategic responses to future challenges

Untitled Early warnings and predictable surprises Preparing for the future How to prepare strategic responses to future challenges and opportunities however surprising they are The Long Food Movement report is one recent attempt to think through and lay out some of the elements that could help food movements serve up meaningful change in the next 25 years. [...] And the raise of the alarm may come from the health movement, women, racialized and other dispossessed communities, the peace activists or the environmentalists. [...] As we approach the mid-2020s we appear to be living in a time of escalating unexpected events, to the extent that the word ‘permacrisis’ has become commonplace. [...] In the old days this was THE way for peoples to prepare for the unknown, to educate the little ones. [...] 6 What predictable surprises might be on the horizon for food systems? In the past Looking back 40 years some of examples of predictable surprises relating to food systems, in addition to the recent Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, include: • The beginning of life-forms • Logistics logams in the global patenting food supply • The epidemic of land grabs • Global consumer and link.