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: 01-07-2024
A day-long workshop on The Future of Digital Technology in Agroecology co-hosted by the University of Exeter and A Bigger Conversation presented a timely opportunity to disrupt common assumptions that digital technology serves industrialised approaches to agriculture.
Published: 28-05-2024
A new report from A Bigger Conversation shows that while agroecological farmers, working in a values-based system, have an interest in technology that serves those values, they have little interest in technology that does not. Its findings emphasise the importance of a more critical and context-specific approach to technological innovation, which contrasts with ‘hard sell’ of Agriculture 4.0.
Published: 29-06-2023
Do agroecological farmers need to ‘tech up’ to be more sustainable? Our Agroecological Intelligence project, brings together UK farmers from across the agroecological spectrum – including as organic, biodynamic, permaculture, food sovereignty, nature friendly, pasture-fed and regenerative – with the aim of understanding what they want from technology and how they make choices around it. Read the interim report.
Published: 09-04-2021
While promising, techno solutions in agriculture also bring inevitable questions. A new report from IPES Food and ETC Group asks and whether such innovations free us from, or perpetuate, “agribusiness-as-usual”.
Published: 31-01-2019
How do we deal with the increasing polarisation in the GMO debate? Care ethics, a theme coming from ecofeminism, allows, according to the authors, to assess technologies “not simply as devices designed to create a certain end experience for a user, but as transformative systems that smuggle in numerous social and political interests”
