“Food Chain Reaction” - 2015
“Players were organized into eight teams. Six of the teams represented Brazil, China, European Union (EU), India, United States, and Continental Africa. The seventh team represented Business and Investors, and the eighth team represented Multilateral Institutions (World Bank, United Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations)”
“Famine, and refugee crises in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Chad and Sudan”
“In the face of a steep price spike, with looming global food shortages in 2022, the EU at one point suspended its environmental rules for agriculture, and introduced a tax on meat”
“The game took the players from the year 2020 to 2030”
“Discussions regarding wider acceptance of genetically modified seeds, particularly in the context of food crisis relief”
“Governments toppling in Pakistan, and Ukraine”
“Food Chain Reaction”, a simulation and role-playing exercise to improve our understanding of how governments, institutions, and private sector interests might interact to address a crisis in the global food system”
https://www.cna.org/cna_files/pdf/IQR-2015-U-012427.pdf
https://www.weforum.org/organizations/cargill-incorporated
https://web.archive.org/web/20191030223520/https://foodchainreaction.org/index.php/about/
“The most eye-catching result, however, was a deal between the US, EU, India, and China to institute a global carbon tax, and cap CO2 emissions in 2030”
“65 international policymakers, academics, business, and thought leaders gathered at the World Wildlife Fund’s headquarters, in Washington DC”
“World Wildlife Foundation (Prince Bernard – Netherlands), Cargill (Walmart buys meat from Cargill), Harvard, Columbia, World Bank, Dupont, UN, Reuters, NASA, Mars, Kelloggs, Bloomberg, China, US Department of State, Center for American Progress (Soros, Podesta)”
https://www.cargill.com/story/video-food-chain-reaction-crisis-simulation-in-washington
“Former US Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, who acted as a mentor to the players”
“The decade brought two major food crises, with prices approaching 400 percent”
These people are crazy