Sustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science
This chapter examines four important food production innovations that have been favored by scientists but opposed by influential swathes of the public: Green Revolution farming, industrial agriculture, the use of synthetic chemicals versus organic farming, and genetically engineered crops (GMOs). Wh...
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| description | This chapter examines four important food production innovations that have been favored by scientists but opposed by influential swathes of the public: Green Revolution farming, industrial agriculture, the use of synthetic chemicals versus organic farming, and genetically engineered crops (GMOs). While three of the four innovations enjoy widespread use despite civil society opposition, GMOs do not. This chapter explains why: except for GMOs, public misgivings did not find political expression until after farmers had experienced the benefits from these innovations, making them impossible to take away. However, activists raised strong objections early with respect to GMOs, before the seeds were in wide use, and therefore most farmers never had a chance to enjoy and defend the benefits. Genome editing, a more recent crop science breakthrough, met early legal resistance in Europe, but broad popular resistance is unlikely to follow, so widespread deployment in farming is likely. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1401082025-11-06T03:58:07Z Sustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science Paarlberg, Robert L. sustainable development goals policies organic agriculture agricultural policies reforms gene editing green revolution agricultural sciences intensification advocacy genetically modified organisms crispr food systems sustainable agriculture governance This chapter examines four important food production innovations that have been favored by scientists but opposed by influential swathes of the public: Green Revolution farming, industrial agriculture, the use of synthetic chemicals versus organic farming, and genetically engineered crops (GMOs). While three of the four innovations enjoy widespread use despite civil society opposition, GMOs do not. This chapter explains why: except for GMOs, public misgivings did not find political expression until after farmers had experienced the benefits from these innovations, making them impossible to take away. However, activists raised strong objections early with respect to GMOs, before the seeds were in wide use, and therefore most farmers never had a chance to enjoy and defend the benefits. Genome editing, a more recent crop science breakthrough, met early legal resistance in Europe, but broad popular resistance is unlikely to follow, so widespread deployment in farming is likely. 2023-10-16 2024-03-14T12:08:55Z 2024-03-14T12:08:55Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140108 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Oxford University Press Paarlberg, Robert L. 2023. Sustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science. In The Political Economy of Food System Transformation: Pathways to Progress in a Polarized World, eds. Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen. Chapter 10, Pp. 230-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.003.0010. |
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| title | Sustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science |
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| title_sort | sustainable food and farming when public perceptions depart from science |
| topic | sustainable development goals policies organic agriculture agricultural policies reforms gene editing green revolution agricultural sciences intensification advocacy genetically modified organisms crispr food systems sustainable agriculture governance |
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