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Opening up the dialogue on genetic engineering in food and farming.

London, England Katılım Ocak 2019
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IPES-Food
IPES-Food@IPESfood·
The real #innovation story is not in the cloud. It’s in farmers’ fields. Farmers & communities are: 🌾restoring soils 🌱breeding climate-adapted crops 🐞managing pests ecologically 🌍building resilience. Stop sidelining them. 📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-in… #HeadInTheCloud
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As the EU revises rules for gene-engineered plants, debates centre on safety, traceability and labelling. Overlooked is patent law’s role in reshaping who can breed plants, on what terms, and with what legal certainty overall. abiggerconversation.org/new-gmos-and-t…
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Genetics and Society
Genetics and Society@C_G_S·
Unlike the U.S. focus on risky “high reward” innovation, this approach embraces low-tech innovation and prioritizes positive impact while minimizing risk. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Interesting thread on the suppressed government biodiversity report. Not many picked up its luke warm assessment of tech technologies role in fixing the biodiversity crisis. Does the full report say more we wonder?
Beyond GM@Beyond_GM

1/ A new UK Government report treats biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. We’ll get to that in a moment... First, some context on how UK policy ended up pulling in the opposite direction… 🧵gov.uk/government/pub…

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From bees to crops, engineered genes and microbes inevitably spread, exposing regulatory blind spots and challenging assumptions of control, precaution and accountability in rapidly deregulating governance frameworks. abiggerconversation.org/editing-nature…
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We are very much looking forward to being on the panel for @IPESFood Digital Dilemmas: Who Controls Agtech? on 8th January at #ORFC2026, looking at what farmers want - and don't want - from digitech.
IPES-Food@IPESfood

IPES-Food is heading to the @ORFC #ORFC2026 as an official partner. We’re organising sessions on trade wars & food prices, climate justice, #foodsystem #plastics, agtech & #agroecology, and corporate concentration. Join us in Oxford or online! 👉 ipes-food.org/oxford-real-fa…

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Ecoreflections
Ecoreflections@ecoreflections·
Good golly there’s - unintentionally, I think - lots to unpack in this Telegraph piece - not least confused framing around meat vs “not-meat”, systemic change vs tech fixes & how animal welfare, farming & innovation get blurred into a simplistic story. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…🧵
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Synthetic human genomes are being developed faster than we can govern them. Good intentions won’t prevent misuse. Without early, values-led scrutiny, we risk creating a technology whose risks become apparent long before its benefits. abiggerconversation.org/synthetic-huma…
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De-extinction promises wonder, but asks us to confront harder truths. What does it mean to “love” nature in an age of extinction — and who bears the risks of resurrecting what we once destroyed? A thoughtful read: abiggerconversation.org/love-in-the-ag…
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Farmers who work with nature don’t want to be separated from their land by screens and algorithms. New research with farmers looks at how agritech hype often misses the point of what many small-scale agroecological farms really need from digital tools abiggerconversation.org/towards-farmer…
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Our new report explores how the UK’s rush to deregulate gene editing rests on a myth of speedier breeding. Drawing on 5 case studies, it shows that “fast science” has delivered slow results & obscured deeper questions about progress and accountability. abiggerconversation.org/the-slow-reali…
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As the IUCN World Conservation Congress opens in Abu Dhabi, members face a pivotal choice between embracing genetic engineering as a conservation tool or pausing to apply the precautionary principle to these rapidly advancing technologies. abiggerconversation.org/protecting-nat…
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Amongst the debates at next week’s, @IUCN Congress is the use of genetic engineering in conservation. Motion 133 proposes a moratorium on engineering wild species. A Bigger Conversation has collaborated on new case studies on the ethics & risks. Read more: engineeringnature.org
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As the government reshuffle continues under the banner of growth, growth & more growth it’s worth revisiting our 2024 report Rethinking Sustainability – Life-centric Agriculture in a Techno-centric World. It’s about agriculture, yes, but also so much more abiggerconversation.org/rethinking-sus…
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