Sustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science

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dc.creatorPaarlberg, Robert L.
dc.date2023-10-16
dc.date2024-03-14T12:08:55Z
dc.date2024-03-14T12:08:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:09:57Z
dc.descriptionThis 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140108
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/96476
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882121.001.0001
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcePaarlberg, 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.
dc.subjectsustainable development goals
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectorganic agriculture
dc.subjectagricultural policies
dc.subjectreforms
dc.subjectgene editing
dc.subjectgreen revolution
dc.subjectagricultural sciences
dc.subjectintensification
dc.subjectadvocacy
dc.subjectgenetically modified organisms
dc.subjectcrispr
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectsustainable agriculture
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.titleSustainable food and farming: When public perceptions depart from science
dc.typeBook Chapter

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