Pathways of Conflict: Lessons from the Cultivation of MON810 in Germany in 2005–2008 for Emerging Conflicts over New Breeding Techniques
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T1 - Pathways of Conflict: Lessons from the Cultivation of MON810 in Germany in 2005–2008 for Emerging Conflicts over New Breeding Techniques
AU - Friedrich, Beate
N1 - Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), grant number FR 4225/1-1, project number 424882341. The empirical study of conflicts over MON810 in Germany was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant number PoNa 01UU0903. Funding Information: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019S1A5A2A03049194). Publisher Copyright: © 2019 by the author.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The paper uses qualitative interviews and document analysis to examine conflicts over plant and animal breeding techniques from the perspectives of Social and Political Ecology. It asks how past conflicts over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can inform understandings of possible trajectories of emerging conflicts over new breeding techniques (NBTs) such as CRISPR/Cas genome editing. Case studies of conflicts in three areas where the transgenic maize MON810 was cultivated in Germany from 2005–2008 show that the escalation of conflict coincided with the first tangible presence of these already controversial organisms in the rural landscape. Location-specific interlinkages between discursive and material dimensions gave rise to dierent pathways of conflict in the three areas studied. These empirical results inform the analysis of emerging conflicts over NBTs in Germany and the United Kingdom. The future of NBTs in both countries is still open, and the divergence of regulatory frameworks in Europe could lead to the development of ‘NBT hotspots’ located in particular European countries, provoking an escalation of conflict in areas where commercial application takes place. The paper concludes by examining the potential for a politicization of future conflicts to encompass wider issues related to the transformation of agricultural systems towards sustainability.
AB - The paper uses qualitative interviews and document analysis to examine conflicts over plant and animal breeding techniques from the perspectives of Social and Political Ecology. It asks how past conflicts over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can inform understandings of possible trajectories of emerging conflicts over new breeding techniques (NBTs) such as CRISPR/Cas genome editing. Case studies of conflicts in three areas where the transgenic maize MON810 was cultivated in Germany from 2005–2008 show that the escalation of conflict coincided with the first tangible presence of these already controversial organisms in the rural landscape. Location-specific interlinkages between discursive and material dimensions gave rise to dierent pathways of conflict in the three areas studied. These empirical results inform the analysis of emerging conflicts over NBTs in Germany and the United Kingdom. The future of NBTs in both countries is still open, and the divergence of regulatory frameworks in Europe could lead to the development of ‘NBT hotspots’ located in particular European countries, provoking an escalation of conflict in areas where commercial application takes place. The paper concludes by examining the potential for a politicization of future conflicts to encompass wider issues related to the transformation of agricultural systems towards sustainability.
KW - Environmental planning
KW - agriculture
KW - conflicts
KW - Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
KW - MON810 in Germany
KW - New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK)
KW - social ecology
KW - society-nature relations
KW - political ecology
KW - precautionary principle
KW - sustainability transformation
KW - agriculture
KW - Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
KW - conflicts
KW - MON810 in Germany
KW - new breeding techniques
KW - Social ecology
KW - society-nature relations
KW - political ecology
KW - precautionary principle
KW - sustainability transformation
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U2 - 10.3390/su12010144
DO - 10.3390/su12010144
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 12
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 1
M1 - 144
ER -