Of all the stakeholders in the agricultural biotechnology debate, citizens are the least well represented. While they are the single biggest stakeholder group, citizen voices are often erased from the public dialogue. It’s time to ask what would a responsible, transparent and citizen-sensitive approach to genetic engagement look like.
Published: 04-02-2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated nearly every sector of modern life, and the food sector is no exception. Now, new research suggests that consumers remain deeply sceptical about AI’s role in food production, raising serious questions about transparency, safety, and trust.
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Published: 28-11-2024
How important is it for us to trust the food we eat? In this Q&A, food scientist and ethicist Ralph Early argues that trust and honesty are fundamental to the relationship between governments, citizens and food producers and should inform how we interact with the environment and regulate emerging food technologies.
Published: 24-09-2024
If you can’t control or predict the future, how can you prepare for it? In his new book, Prof Ian Scoones suggests that in an increasingly unpredictable world conventional risk management – in finance and banking, critical infrastructures, pandemics, disasters and climate change and technology – is no longer working.
