This paper builds on and updates an overview paper released by Future Directions International in 2011 on the topic of Global Food Losses and Waste, the result of a series of workshop discussion on the subject of ‘Global Food Supply and Demand to 2050’.

This draft report was released on 31 May 2013. Written submissions are invited by Monday 15 July 2013. The final report will be prepared after submissions have been received and public hearings held. The final report will be forwarded to the Government by end September 2013. See also More about the Mineral and Energy Resource...

Issues surrounding environmental legislation and policy lead to unsustainable outcomes in waste management and practice in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. As a result local people's lives are affected in a range of different ways.

This paper began as a series of workshop discussions hosted by Future Directions International on the subject of ‘Global Food Supply and Demand to 2050.’ The workshop, the fourth in the series, was attended by several eminent Australian academics and thinkers.

New Zealanders have always understood the need for long-term thinking. This report describes eighteen future-thinking initiatives since 1936, many of which were undertaken by groups in civil society. Given such a background, this report puts forward a number of lessons.