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the regulatory governance of these products. However, regulatory systems are inevitably political because their purpose is to decide whether the use of particular products will help or hinder the ... Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh , Old Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ , UK 1 A. Raybould Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security , Easter Bush Campus , The University of
. Why is this the case? Reasons have been attributed to climate variability, biotic and abiotic stresses, lack of access to innovative technologies and political interference in decision making processes ... raise the question: why are safe, higher yielding crops not being more widely adopted and produced? The answer is stated simply: politics. Political interference by environmental non-governmental
and national laws, additional legal frameworks may apply in African countries. These include a Strategic Environmental Assessment, which supports political and policy level decision-making regarding a ... . With regard to the ability of GDMMs to move autonomously across political boundaries or of the transgenic construct to move across borders via interbreeding, it is of interest to compare requirements for
political support has also been expressed by a wide range of scientists. For example, several past winners of the Nobel Prize have expressed their support for agricultural biotechnology in an open letter ... engineered soybeans and maize—commodities that are key components of animal feed— into the EU (European Parliament 2020) . This recent resolution highlights the ongoing tension between the political and
aims at suggesting a new philosophy for using 3D models in a diagnostic perspective in order to study structures along with their actual dimensions, their stability and so on. Traditionally, indeed
present epoch will be of such precision to make useless any new classification. Finally, the political side of the new epoch is examined. Anthropocene is used as a basis to support the concept that nature ... concept in a one-page article in Nature in 2002 (Crutzen 2002). Since then, the Anthropocene has been the subject of papers, meetings,1 and research and discussion at the scientific, political, and
processes are covered by these regulations for rDNA-derived products. Divergent regulatory approaches may be a result of different economic, social and political prerequisites. Such divergence may not pose ... , perceptions regarding public acceptance and associated political will are often strongly influenced by local interest groups. The limited available scientific data on the acceptance of agricultural
food, countries assimilate or reject them based on distinct socio-economic and political realities. In the specific case of new biotechnologies, thus far, developments have been the same (Schuttelaar ... political considerations (Smyth and Phillips 2014). Genome editing Mutagenetic technologies advanced rapidly in the 2000s into what is now known as genome editing, which refers to point-specific mutations in
food security and higher standards of animal welfare. However, these proposed interventions in farming practices exist in a social, ethical and political space that is highly contested and require open
catalysis research. The philosophy of the meeting was based on the consideration that catalytic processes (whether they are heterogeneous, homogeneous, or enzymatic) are all based on the same principle that
and Inspection Service is responsible for the final safety determination and labeling for certain products, such as meat hA union of 55 African member states aimed at promoting economic and political
animal research to dominate public discourse; with the result that public and political opinion is often uncertain on the use of animals in research. This disposition has the potential to lead to further ... proposed interventions in farming practices exist in a social, ethical and political space that is highly contested. Over the last 18 months, I have been a member of a working group of the UK Nuffield
and a political crossroad. Three continents are flanking each other along its shores, with an unparalleled mixture of cultures, economies, religions and political regimes. What human culture divides ... political laws. Managing the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most challenging enterprises humans can attempt. The range of disciplines involved is so cross-cutting that the specialists - at the extremes of
reasons. They have instead maintained an approach that focusses on treatments. Woods suggests that for effective prevention, an appropriate combination of veterinary, disease, farming and political drivers ... future of these developments will depend on political decisions, regulatory requirements and public acceptability, as well as technological capabilities. This paper has sought to draw on the experiences of
surrounding sustainability and public acceptance of the technology in fish aquaculture. Genome editing (GE) techniques In the current political debate and regulatory literature (and in this study), the term
practically impossible to estimate the related risk in advance and the previewing action becomes a political issue: what the authorities can actually do is tied up, rather, with their willingness at spending ... freely supply their data, despite being incomplete, so that a correct scientific information will transform contamination into a political issue, up to the regulations enforced, but widely disregarded, by
and political decision-makers should cooperate in the definition of ethical standards and guidelines which determine what kinds of translational research and application of genome editing are admissible
. Telmo Pievani, who teaches Philosophy of Sciences at the University of Padua, speculates on the Anthropocene and the sixth mass-extinction, the first one eventually attributable to the direct influence of
and the long-term radiation hazard and heat dissipation capacity needed. Reprocessing does not, however, eliminate the political and community challenges and require the need for the repository of ... economical, political, environmental and even ethical discussions. There is no doubt, however, that the major problem, despite in some way the future destiny of nuclear energy, is the need to dispose nuclear
contribution to the global challenge of food security. This is increasingly being reflected by the constructive media portrayal of this biotechnology. In turn, the political mood is also changing; for example ... editing tools. We believe that in this regulatory environments, and based on the specificity and ‘footprintless’ nature of genome editing, gene editing animals will successfully navigate both the political
