Technology change and new modes of agri-food governance

Abstract

Transboundary food-system threats fuel the development of new agri-food technologies and related new, hybrid and cross-sectional regulatory regimes. Such regimes include new actors (public and private), concepts, and discourses around agricultural sustainability and changing views and conflicts about new policy issues, such as the use of food engineering and novel and digital agricultural technologies (GMO, new molecular breeding technologies, or precision farming technologies). There is a need for innovative analytical approaches to conceptualize and assess the role of new regulatory regimes related to technology change in the agri-food sector. We are particularly interested in contributions that deal with new governance modes that affect both production processes and opportunities, and implementation and control mechanisms. How do opportunities for regulation and monitoring expand? What are potential implications for regulators, implementing agencies and producers? We invite papers that address these new developments and enlighten our understanding of them by means of existing and new analytical approaches.

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