Governing sustainable food and farming production futures using integrated risk assessment approaches

Title
Governing sustainable food and farming production futures using integrated risk assessment approaches
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Gesche, Astrid
Haslberger, Alexander
Editor
Editor(s): Matthias Kaiser, Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wageningen Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Wageningen, United Kingdom
UNE publication id
une:10519
Abstract
Nanofoods, 'functional foods' and biopharming are three production futures that are strongly developing despite being characterised by significant gaps in knowledge and understanding, and a peculiar scarcity of proactive processes with which to seize opportunities and minimise and manage potential risks and public concerns which could negatively impact on the industry. In order to better assess benefits and risks and to build public trust, the paper suggests the establishment of an integrated health/food and environmental risk assessment regime that also incorporates and is responsive to the ethical concerns, socio-economic realities and local demands of various stakeholders - right from the beginning of a development. In order to have a global as well as a national practical effect, the assessment regime needs to conform to national and accepted international regulations and observe fundamental principles in bioethics and public sector ethics, such as integrity, access, autonomy and choice. Such a pro-active approach might lead to improved collaborations, to constructive communication channels and to enriched and more mutually acceptable futures.
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Citation
Ethics and the politics of food, p. 402-407
ISBN
9789086865758
9086860087
9789086860081
Start page
402
End page
407

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