Food & Environment

Discover the intersection of food systems and environmental sustainability. This topic explores future food trends, inventive farming techniques and how our eating habits impact the planet, from farm to table and beyond.

Food & Environment

Food 2024

Obesity drugs, private-label foods and shifting social patterns are disrupting America’s food landscape. What the Future lays out how food makers to packaging companies to appliance makers can thrive in these changes.

Read Now

Farming

Here’s how brands and businesses can use innovation, technology and ingenuity to meet the growing global demand for healthy and sustainable nutrition in a changing world.

Read Now

Food 2022

Climate change, population and workplace shifts, and continued inequality are stressing our food systems and our ability to afford the food we need. This issue of What the Future: Food explores how robot food farming to food scientists are working to solve those challenges.

Read Now

Earth

The future of Earth’s climate is worsening and is the dark cloud that hangs over all other futures. But brands have a critical role in collaborating with governments and people to blunt climate change and create a more resilient tomorrow. This issue of What the Future: Earth shows how.

Read Now

Eating

The future of food and eating is being changed by factors like food delivery, fake meat and ghost kitchens. Here are the trends and people that will shape how food growers to retailers market and sell their products in the coming years.

Read Now

Food 2017

We have conversations with the difference-makers in the food sector about how our food gets to us, where that food comes from today and will come from tomorrow. The answers to these seemingly straightforward questions are in a surprising amount of flux.

Read Now

What the Future Webinar series

What the Future Pets