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Title:
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Seeing GMOs from a systems perspective: The need for comparative cartographies of agri/cultures for sustainability assessment
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Author:
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Herrero, Amaranta; Wickson, Fern; Binimelis Adell, Rosa
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Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Facultat de Ciències de la Salut i el Benestar |
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Over the past twenty years, agricultural biotechnologies have generated
chronically unresolved political controversies. The standard tool of risk assessment has
proven to be highly limited in its ability to address the panoply of concerns that exist about
these hybrid techno/organisms. It has also failed to account for both the conceptual and
material networks of relations agricultural biotechnologies require, create and/or perform.
This paper takes as a starting point that agricultural biotechnologies cannot be usefully assessed
as isolated technological entities but need to be evaluated within the context of the broader
socio-ecological system that they embody and engender. The paper then explores, compares
and contrasts some of the methodological tools available for advancing this systems-based
perspective. The article concludes by outlining a new synthesis approach of comparative
cartographies of agri/cultures generated through multi-sited ethnographic case-studies,
which is proposed as a way to generate system maps and enable the comparison of
genetically modified (GM) food with both conventional and alternative agri-food networks
for sustainability assessment. The paper aims to make a unique theoretical and
methodological contribution by advancing a systems-based approach to conceptualising and
assessing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and proposing a synthesised
methodology for mapping networks of relations across different agri/cultures. |
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Subject(s):
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-Biotecnologia
-Desenvolupament sostenible |
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Aquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
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Document type:
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Article
info:eu-repo/publishedVersion |
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Published by:
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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