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Alternatives for the Use of Glyphosate - Foresight Brief No. 010 October 2018
(2018-10)Glyphosate is the most widely applied herbicide in agriculture and is often used in conjunction with crops that are genetically modified. Farmers’ dependency on glyphosate has grown steeply in recent years as it is easy ... -
Building a Digital Ecosystem for the Planet - Foresight Brief No. 014 September 2019
(2019)Emerging frontier technologies have dramatically boosted the ways in which we can monitor the health of our planet. If we can leverage this information effectively, we will be able to assess and predict risks, increase ... -
Growing Popularity of Alternate Food Systems for Environment and Health - Foresight Brief No. 015 April 2020
(2020)A food system could be defined as the path that food travels - starting from conception in the field to the resulting nutritional outcomes for those consuming it. This includes the growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, ... -
Hacking Economics for People and Planet - Foresight Brief No. 006 - February 2018
(2018)As global environmentalism and environmental policy-making has moved into the 21st century, it has not significantly addressed a critical blindspot: the fundamental human system that lies at the root of our ecological and ...