Disruptive or New Potential Trends

This chapter discusses selected and potential future disruptions, i.e., incidents which may destroy or fundamentally change previous megatrends. A number of such potential disruptions or new potential trends are identified and are divided into categories: Geopolitical instability is both a likely and an effective disruption, which will affect megatrends in agriculture, the food industry and food markets. Deglobalization can also be a consequence of geopolitical instability. E-commerce, or e-trade or online trade may become dominant, and this will disrupt the entire present value chain. Artificial meat is a potential technological disruption that may have a major impact on the entire food system. Technological and not least biotechnological advances are dominant and seem to continue and spread globally. The industrialization of agriculture continues and in the longer-term agriculture will become bio-industrial enterprises.