patterns and trends agricultural investment - leveraging whole-systems impacts
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Patterns & Trends inAgricultural Investment
Dr Richard David HamesExecutive Chairman - Asian Foresight Institute
Chief Executive, Centre for the FutureFellow - World Academy of Art & Science
Fast Forward
How can we rapidly redesign our most life-critical systems, cooperatively and in ways that benefit all of humanity, without further damage to each other and to the environment?
What changes will we need to make to our most fundamental belief systems in order for us to be able to see possibilities that have eluded us thus far?
What does it mean to be human and alive in an era obsessed by technology and where a destiny narrative is missing?
Government Focus
Safety and security of citizens can best be assured by surveillance &
regulations
The imperative of each state is to protect citizens by using every
means available to secure compliance
Corporate Focus
Economic growth invariably creates jobs and thus benefits everyone in
a society
The sole imperative for business is to create wealth for its
shareholders and major investors
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Conditions are Changing
• Peer-2-Peer, commons and open-source-based investments
• Small scale localised practices• Community influence &
engagement• Clear differentiation in aims &
vision between corporates and communities
• Social impact model gaining traction
• Competitive government grants• Large scale industrial practices
favoured• Corporate domination of the system• Little variation in strategic vision
between agribusiness industries and most NGOs
• 19th century charitable model is the prevailing government mindset
Future Pathways• To sustain current government funding link strategies to the trending aims and
imperatives of the state [e.g. food security; connections between poverty & conflict]
• Remember that copycat strategies will increasingly fail to attract serious investors and public sector funding will dry up
• Cooperation is increasingly far more important than competition [e.g. The Global Innovation Commons; blockchain public ledgers]
• Strategies must be sufficiently distinctive, locally relevant, easy to implement, and empowering to people
• Align with communities in ways that generate demonstrable social impacts
• Achieve unprecedented leverage and release new knowledge through connectivity in the sharing economy & peer-2-peer initiatives [e.g. Faircoop]
• Focus on whole system change rather than wasting effort on trying to eliminate discrete symptoms of a system that requires radical reform
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