Despite the ever increasing global demand for food production, the reality is, it needs to be done with less land, less water and less farmers. This week Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan – @PhilRTHK – and I, on the back of a documentary and an online workshop I recently delivered,.

The window between a signal arriving and it demanding a response is shortening. a future in being a farmer is already shaping strategy conversations in forward-looking organisations. Treating it as a future concern rather than a present one builds a preparedness gap that will have to be closed under pressure.

The most important question is not whether a future in being a farmer will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.