Trend · rank 110 of 250

Food storage & cold chains

Urban demand and longer supply chains are increasing the need for storage and refrigeration, making cold chain coverage important to national food availability, nutritional quality and the reduction of losses.

Strategic InfrastructureFood, water & naturefood systemslogistics

Second pass: Added in the second pass. Held by one of the three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
110of 250
Sensitivity
13.3rank 55
Breadth
2of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
27.1rank 168
Eigenvector
0.1
Betweenness
18.0
Links
7trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
21.9

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
121
Over a year
+33%Rising
Over three years
+12%
Peak
1573 May 2026
Sources
Bothagreement -0.08
Coverage
11languages · 43 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (11 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English56%101+12%
Russian12%123+45%
Japanese8%116+18%
French6%129+22%
Spanish5%105+30%
Italian4%83−21%
German3%97+4%
Chinese3%113+10%
Arabic2%68+16%
Indonesian1%117+24%
Persian0%161+94%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

United States

Singapore

Australia

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Canada

South Korea

Ghana

Ireland

Philippines

Kenya

Nigeria

100

85

78

72

58

57

51

49

43

43

38

38

The 12 highest of 43 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English101−14%+7%−10%
EuropeGoogle in 7 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian114+2%+22%+14%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 11 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian112+17%+18%+6%
South AsiaGoogle in 2 countries99−8%−3%+0%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 1 country + Wikipedia in Persian, Arabic120+2%+16%+14%
AfricaGoogle in 3 countries95−20%+17%+3%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish108−10%+29%−4%
Russia and EurasiaWikipedia in Russian123−1%+46%+26%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
AustraliaGoogle114+25%+20%+4%
BrazilGoogle94−10%+1%−23%
CanadaGoogle110+17%−8%+3%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French98−10%+6%−7%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German104−5%+5%+3%
IndiaGoogle102−2%−1%+6%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian130+45%+38%+10%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian65−22%−19%−43%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese91+31%−3%−20%
South KoreaGoogle102+62%−23%+3%
MexicoGoogle133−29%+73%+46%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian123−1%+46%+26%
South AfricaGoogle96−2%+3%−16%
United KingdomGoogle91+2%−20%−21%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English100−22%+9%−11%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
4 · HighTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
4 · HighA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
3 · ModerateA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health
2 · LowA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
1 · Very lowA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
4 · HighStrategic stockpiles & reservesEnergy, networks & climate resilience66
4 · HighFood loss & wasteFood, water & nature191
3 · ModeratePersistent nutritional deprivationFood, water & nature71
3 · ModerateAgricultural soil degradationFood, water & nature148
3 · ModerateStaple food export concentrationFood, water & nature159
3 · ModerateBiodiversity & ecosystem lossFood, water & nature181
3 · ModerateFreshwater stress & transboundary waterFood, water & nature187