This is a closed online session for producers and businesses in the artisan, craft and quality food sectors. Its aim is to help them engage with and understand new and upcoming changes in English legislation – which removes labelling, traceability and monitoring from gene edited precision bred crops and foods – and their impacts on the quality, non-GMO food sector throughout the UK.
When it comes to the regulation of new genetic technologies in the environment, what we don’t know can be as significant as what we do.
An opportunity to explore new liberalised UK regulations on gene editing from the perspective of their broad scope and other little-explored aspects such as ethics, welfare and environmental impact.
Ongoing reviews of the way we regulate the products of genetic engineering in agriculture have shone a light on the governance of GMOs, the limited pool of stakeholders that are […]
This session explores the emergence and application of the ‘innovation principle’ as a values-neutral solution to multiple agriculture challenges, as tool of sustainability and as a legal concept that influences content and direction of regulation.
This session explores whether we are changing the definition of nature to accommodate a technological agenda, the potential impacts of viewing food as software, the regulatory challenges of blurring the lines between natural and technological/artificial, and offers a legal perspective on patents and GMO claims of ‘close to nature’.
The field of agri-tech is rapidly expanding, along with a narrative that says farmers need “all the tools in the toolbox”. But does “all the tools in the toolbox” mean different things in different contexts – and what happens when we assess technological innovations within an agroecological framework?
The UK Government wants to deregulate genetically modified (GM) crops and animals. Genetic modification (originally known as genetic engineering and now rebranded as ‘gene editing’) is being promoted as an […]
Support for new genetic engineering technologies is quietly growing, even amongst groups claiming to be ‘for’ sustainability, agroecology and even organic. This is happening largely behind closed doors and without […]
Join specialists from farming, campaigning, science, business and media for an in-depth discussion about whether gene editing is not just desirable but necessary if farming is to reach its goals higher sustainability and better welfare.
