A 2011 Foresight report concluded that climate change is a relatively small factor here, at least in the short term, when compared with the rapid increases in global food demand expected in the next decade.
21 22 The Foresight report identifies a large array of environmental determinants of obesity, a number of which are again related to early child development.
That's what the UK's Foresight report argued a few months ago, calling for the oxymoronic "sustainable intensification".
The foresight was identified a goal-oriented direction for society based on a review of the 10th S&T Foresight Report.
Those responsible for drafting the Strategy said the Foresight report encouraged them to draft a Strategy that: (1) provided a framework to bring everything together (2) addressed the environmental determinants of diet and activity (3) incorporated a wide range of stakeholders and (4) was informed by existing evidence as much as possible.
The government's Foresight report on obesity, based on a series of evidence reviews, took a broader view, specifically exploring the 'obesogenic' environment and international comparisons of trends and determinants[ 9].
The Foresight report should have been a wake-up call, with its warning that either governments provide high levels of flood protection to resist rising coastal threats, or they abandon large tracts to the sea; presciently, it even cautioned of the threat from storm surges back in 2010.
The Foresight report involves setting up a number of groups to examine the issues of housing; repair, refurbishment and reuse of facilities; sustainable materials; information and communication technology; business, globalization and commerce; and safe construction.
And a report published in 2007, the government-commissioned Foresight report predicted that if no action was taken, 60% of men, 50% of women and 25% of children would be obese by 2050.
The Foresight report concluded that international policy has an important role to play here – today, despite plentiful supplies of food globally, almost one billion people are undernourished.
