Foresight has three ongoing projects:

• Land Use Futures will help government and other policy makers to assess whether the UK’s existing land use patterns and practices are fit for the future. It will examine what actions might be needed to ensure that land continues to be able to support the lives dependent on it in the long term.
• Global Food and Farming Futures will take a global perspective to examine how the world can feed a rapidly expanding population. It will take a long term view of the food system, looking ahead to 2050 and will consider issues of demand, production and supply as well as broader environmental impacts. The findings are due to be published in late 2010.
• The Global Environmental Migration project will explore the global patterns and impacts of migration over the next 50 years arising from environmental change as well as the challenges that could result from changing migration patterns and how these might be managed. The project’s findings will be published in the summer of 2011

Our recent published projects include:

• Tackling Obesities: Future Choices launched its findings on 17 October 2007. The project aimed to produce a long term vision of how we can deliver a sustainable response to obesity in the UK over the next 40 years. All outputs of the project are available on this site.
• The Mental Capital and Wellbeing project is producing a challenging and long-term vision for maximising mental capital and wellbeing in the UK in the twenty-first century both for the benefit of society, and for the individual. The project has been running since October 2006, and reported its findings in autumn 2008.
• Our project on Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment argued that we need to reduce the carbon emissions from our existing buildings. It explored how the UK built environment could evolve to help manage the transition over the next five decades to secure, sustainable, low carbon energy systems that meet the needs of society, the requirements of the economy, and the expectation of individuals.

To find out more about any of these projects, click on the relevant project title.