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SUMMARY:CRISPRcon 2020 - Equity\, Environment\, and Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:CRISPRcon 2020 – Equity\, Environment\, & Agriculture\nCRISPRcon is a unique forum bringing diverse voices together to discuss the future of CRISPR and related gene editing technologies across applications in agriculture\, health\, conservation\, and more. CRISPRcon sparks curiosity\, builds understanding\, and highlights societal histories and other context relevant to decisions on gene editing technologies. \nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld events are keeping gene editing in the spotlight. In the development of tests and treatments for COVID-19\, attention on racial disparities and inequities\, strategies to address climate change\, and evolving governance approaches in the U.S. and abroad\, dialogue about the impact and use of gene editing technologies is as relevant as ever. \nCRISPRcon: Conversations on Science\, Society\, and the Future of Gene Editing returns this fall with a series of webinars exploring gene editing’s role in these and other pressing issues. \nCRISPRcon 2020 Virtual will continue to advance broad dialogue on societal considerations for gene editing technologies. In a year that has transformed the world in unexpected ways\, plan to join us virtually for a dynamic\, diverse\, and timely lineup of interactive discussions that consider gene editing across applications\, disciplines\, geographies\, communities\, cultures\, and perspectives. \nEquity\, Environment & Agriculture \n(in partnership with NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center) \n\n\nGenome editing has been criticized by some as a product of the scientific\, political and social approaches to ecological and agricultural systems that contribute to rather than curb social inequities. It has been touted by others as a breakthrough tool for addressing equity issues in public health\, agriculture\, food and conservation\, including those related to climate change. This week\, CRISPRcon will explore how social equity factors into non-human gene editing\, first exploring how risks are defined and governed in food systems and then exploring potential risks and benefits for climate justice. \nPlease join us by registering for this theme’s discussions. \n\n\nOctober 13\, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT – Risk governance in gene editing and food: Intersections of safety and equity\nSocietal concerns regarding gene-edited food and agriculture products are wide-ranging\, encompassing issues such as human safety\, ecological impact\, animal welfare\, socioeconomic implications for agricultural communities\, distribution of societal impacts and benefits\, and control\, access\, and sovereignty within food systems. The assessment and management of various potential risks is distributed among regulators\, researchers and developers\, and other societal actors; questions of who defines what risks are managed\, who manages them\, and to what standard represent equity and political concerns in the risk governance process. This panel will consider the scope and governance of different categories of risk in various geographies\, including how risk is currently addressed and how it might alternatively be addressed through regulatory and other processes. \n\n\nMODERATOR\n\nJennifer Kuzma\nGoodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor in School of Public and International Affairs and co-Director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center\, NC State University.\nSarah Gallo\nDirector of Market Access for Food & Farm Innovation\, Biotechnology Innovation Organization\nSélim Louafi\nSocial Scientist at the Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement\nÉliane Ubalijoro\nDeputy Executive Director for Programs at Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition\nGregory Jaffe\nDirector of the Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public Interest\n\n\nOctober 15\, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT – Gene editing and climate justice: Adaptation\, mitigation\, and conservation strategies in a changing world\nSocietal impacts of climate change will not be distributed equally among geographies and populations. Proponents of gene editing forecast conservation applications whereby gene editing might aid in climate change adaptation (and\, sometimes\, mitigation) for vulnerable communities and ecosystems. Yet these technological solutions may create their own inequities and risks\, both ecological and social. This session will explore what is at stake — including both risks and benefits — in the use of gene editing to address climate justice/equity issues. \n\n\nKatie Barnhill-Dilling\nPostdoctoral Research Scholar; Affiliate\, North Carolina State University\, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources; Genetic Engineering and Society Center\nRiley Taitingfong\nPhD candidate\, Department of Communication at UC San Diego\nShantha Ready Alonso\nExecutive Director\, Creation Justice Ministries\nSara Fern Fitzsimmons\nDirector of Restoration\, The American Chestnut Foundation at Penn State University\n\nOctober 15\, 4:45 – 5:15 PM EDT – Ideas Marketplace: breakout discussions on Equity\, Environment\, and Agriculture\nImmediately following the panel discussion\, we will hold an Ideas Marketplace\, where volunteer hosts will lead other CRISPRcon participants in informal video breakout discussions on a topic of the host’s choice. (Interested in being a discussion host? Apply here by September 17) \nPlease join us by registering for this theme’s discussions.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/crisprcon-2020/
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SUMMARY:Andrew Flachs - Choices and performances in Indian GM cotton fields | GES Colloquium (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:GES Colloquium Home | Zoom Registration | GES MediaSite | Video Archives | Podcast | @GESCenterNCSU | Newsletter \nChoices and performances in Indian GM cotton fields\nSpeaker: Andrew Flachs\, PhD\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University\nWebsite | Email | Twitter @DrFlachsophone \nDescription: Seeds are tools to ask how promising technology including GMOs and organic certification is used\, learned\, and adapted by farmers with consequences for rural wellbeing and sustainable agriculture. \nAbstract\nA single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India\, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production\, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic\, social\, political\, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In this talk\, I’ll explore the anthropological question: what lives are possible on these farms and how do interactions with these technologies influence rural wellbeing and sustainability. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture\, my research investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow\, persistent dangers of pesticides\, inequalities in rural life\, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world\, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture\, and even the complex threat of suicide. \nRelated resources:  \n\nInteractive story map of the cotton commodity chain: https://arcg.is/nOzaD\nBook: Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology\, Sustainability\, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India\, by Andrew Flachs: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/cultivating-knowledge\nFlachs\, A. (2019)\, Planting and Performing: Anxiety\, Aspiration\, and “Scripts” in Telangana Cotton Farming. American Anthropologist\, 121: 48-61. doi:10.1111/aman.13175\nFlachs\, A\, Stone\, GD. Farmer knowledge across the commodification spectrum: Rice\, cotton\, and vegetables in Telangana\, India. J Agrar Change. 2019; 19: 614– 634. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12295\n\nSpeaker Bio\nDr. Andrew Flachs researches food and agriculture systems\, exploring genetically modified crops\, heirloom seeds\, and our own microbiomes. An assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University\, his work among farmers in North America\, the Balkans\, and South India investigates ecological knowledge and technological change in agricultural systems spanning Cleveland urban gardens and Indian GM cotton fields. His book\, “Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology\, Sustainability\, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India\,” was released in November 2019 with the University of Arizona Press.
URL:https://ges.research.ncsu.edu/event/colloquium-2020-10-13/
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