Developing Knowledge on Different Cultures of Agriculture
The Agri/Cultures Project was a four-year research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s FRIPRO programme. It focused on developing novel concepts, methods and empirical knowledge for understanding and assessing the complex relational networks embodied in and performed by agricultural biotechnologies. It concluded in 2019 and culminated in the release of the Seed-Links interactive website, a pedagogical tool for learning about different cultures of agriculture and the impact of our everyday food choices.
Time Period
2014-2019
Additional Team members
Amaranta Herrero
Rosa Binemelis
A short introduction to the Agri/Cultures Project
A short animation illustrating the myriad practices of everyday resistance carried out by farmers in Spain to try and avoid contamination from genetically modified (GM) maize.
Do you want to know if your food contains GMOs?
In this short video we tell you what you would need to perform GM detection, how it can be done, what it costs, and how long it can take.
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Wickson, F., Preston, C., Binimelis, R., Herrero, A. Hartley, S., Wynberg, R., and Wynne, B. (2017). “Addressing socio-economic and ethical considerations in biotechnology governance: The potential of a new politics of care” Food Ethics 1(2): 193-199.
Herrero, A.; Binimelis, R.; Wickson, F. (2017) Just existing is resisting: The everyday struggle against the expansion of GM crops in Spain. Sociologia Ruralis 57(S1): 859-880.
Wickson, F., Binimelis, R., and Herrero, A. (2016). “Should Organic Agriculture Maintain its Opposition to GM? New Techniques Writing the Same Old Story” Sustainability 8(11), 1105; doi: 10.3390/su8111105.
Hartley, S., Gillund, F., van Hove, L. and Wickson, F. (2016) “Essential Features of Responsible Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology” PloS Biology 14(5):e1002453.
Preston, C. and Wickson, F. (2016) “Broadening the lens for the governance of emerging technologies: Care ethics and agricultural biotechnology” Technology in Society 45:48-57.
Binimelis, R., Wickson, F. and Herrero, A. (2016). “Agricultural coexistence”, in Thompson, P.B. and Kaplan, D.M. (eds), Encyclopedia of food and agricultural ethics. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Herrero, A., Wickson, F., Binimelis, R. (2015) “Seeing GMOs from a Systems Perspective: The Need for Comparative Cartographies of Agri/Cultures for Sustainability Assessment” Sustainability 7: 11321-11344.
Wickson, F., Binimelis, R. and Herrero, A. (2015) “Why Europe will let member states opt out of GM crops” The Conversation http://theconversation.com/why-europe-will-let-member-states-opt-out-of-gm-crops-50873 (published 30.11.15)