Bioeconomy and Genome Editing: A Comparison Between Germany and the Netherlands

Siebert, Robin; Herzig, Christian; Birringer, Marc

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“…New Breeding Techniques (NBT) associated with gene-editing may have the potential to address the challenge of access to healthy food while helping to reduce the use of pesticides and fertilizers in European agriculture. Since NBTs may also play a central role in enabling a more productive and inclusive post-fossil agricultural economy (Siebert et al, 2022), the European Commission called for a study regarding the status of novel genomic techniques under Union law. It was issued in April 2021 and concluded that several of the plant products obtained from NBTs have the potential to contribute to the objectives of the EU's Green Deal and, in particular, to the EU's f2f strategy as well as to its biodiversity strategy.…”

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COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy

Aerni

2023

Front. Environ. Econ.

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The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) held in November 2022 in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, ended with joint commitments to compensate for loss and damage and increase funds for climate change adaptation in future. This outcome is likely to be supportive of current efforts to render agricultural systems in low income tropical countries more resilient and productive through locally adapted forms of sustainable intensification. However, the farm-to-fork (f2f) strategy launched in 2020 by the European Union (EU) has set targets that associate sustainable agriculture primarily with extensification rather than intensification. This paper critically reviews the literature that assesses the impact of current agricultural, environmental and development policies on global food security, biodiversity and climate change. It challenges the view that the European Green Deal and the f2f strategy will have its desired effects. It also argues that the intention of the European Commission (EC) to promote the f2f strategy in low income tropical countries may not be compatible with its commitment to the ownership principle in development assistance. The decision of the EC in fall 2022 to propose a regulatory framework on new breeding techniques (NBTs) indicates that methods of sustainable intensification may be reconsidered if they serve the goals of the Green Deal and the f2f strategy. Such a readjustment would also be in line with the outcome of COP27 and indicate that the polarized global debate on sustainable food systems may become more pragmatic and outcome-oriented again.

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COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy

Aerni

2023

Front. Environ. Econ.

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“…38, No. 4, December 2023 248 ing from experimental stages to practical applications (Siebert et al, 2022). Furthermore, advancements in agriculture, aquaculture, and food production have integrated technologies such as cost-effective, high-throughput microarrays, significantly expanding genetic data for plants and animals.…”

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Global trends in regulatory frameworks for animal genome editing in agriculture

Lim,

Choi

2023

J Anim Reprod Biotechnol

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The convergence of advancements in biological sciences alongside rapid progress in computing, automation, and artificial intelligence is propelling a new wave of innovation with far-reaching impacts across various sectors such as health, agriculture, consumer goods, and energy. While these advancements, which encompass gene editing and biological engineering, hold immense potential, they also entail significant risks. Particularly, our improving capacity to comprehend and manipulate biology has led to recent breakthroughs, notably the substantial reduction in DNA sequencing costs and the introduction of new methods like CRISPR for gene editing and cell reprogramming. Noteworthy advancements have been made in four specific areas: understanding and altering biomolecules, engineering cells, tissues, and organs within biosystems, bridging biology and machines through biomachines, and utilizing cells or molecules like DNA for computational purposes. Each area is progressing differently, transition-

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An issue public’s confirmation-biased news feeding in changing political constellations: A quasi-experimental field study in the German conflict over genome editing

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Pannach

2023

New Media & Society

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Contributing to the study of curated news flows, we investigated how conflicting participants in an issue public fed mainstream news into their Twitter networks. In a quasi-experimental field study in the context of the 2018 European Court of Justice’s ruling on genome editing, we combined standardized manual content analyses of a universe of legacy media news items ( N = 165), users’ tweets (“feeds”) linking these news items ( N = 2014), and users’ profiles ( N = 1070). Confirming existing knowledge, opponents and proponents of genetically modified organisms largely fed news items confirming their issue attitudes. Extending existing knowledge, we show that counter-attitudinal news feeding became more likely when users had a political disadvantage rather than a political advantage in the controversy. However, this was only true for the more active but not for the more inactive news feeders.

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Bioeconomy and Genome Editing: A Comparison Between Germany and the Netherlands

Cited by 3 publications

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COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy

COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy

Global trends in regulatory frameworks for animal genome editing in agriculture

An issue public’s confirmation-biased news feeding in changing political constellations: A quasi-experimental field study in the German conflict over genome editing

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