Future of Food – Towards a Third Generation Structural Transformation

The discussion paper "Future of Food - Towards a Third Generation Structural Transformation" was prepared as a support to the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) deliberations on the implications of emerging or “frontier” technologies for the future of food, held in May 2018. This paper follows upon previous discussion at the High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) and CEB of four classes of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and biotechnology, and is one of a series of new papers intended to stimulate discussion among UN principals of the interactions of emerging technologies with social processes.