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Panel 5-1 Emerging Technologies in Food and Agriculture: Redrawing the Border of Naturalness /Masashi Tachikawa
Masashi Tachikawa
Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
As the world is undergoing a major shift in its current situation, including the Sustainable Development Goals, decarbonization, and climate change, agricultural policies are seeking ways to respond to these trends. The ‘Green Food System Strategy’ (MeaDRI strategy) was proposed by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in 2021 within this kind of policy context, and tries to incorporate various technological elements, including smart agriculture.
In this paper, I review the trends of technological development in the food and agriculture sector, including the MeaDRI Strategy and other countries’ strategies, and discuss what kind of innovation is needed to promote transitions toward decarbonized society. In the course of discussion, I will try to explore implications of various approaches such as sociology of expectations and socio-technical regime theory. In doing so, I will pay particular attention to the multifaceted development of innovations, and clarify the issues that need to be considered in policy responses to solve problems arising from the future challenges.
Keywords: strategy for sustainable food systems (MeaDRI), technological innovation, genome editing, socio-technical regime, sociology of expectations
Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
As the world is undergoing a major shift in its current situation, including the Sustainable Development Goals, decarbonization, and climate change, agricultural policies are seeking ways to respond to these trends. The ‘Green Food System Strategy’ (MeaDRI strategy) was proposed by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in 2021 within this kind of policy context, and tries to incorporate various technological elements, including smart agriculture.
In this paper, I review the trends of technological development in the food and agriculture sector, including the MeaDRI Strategy and other countries’ strategies, and discuss what kind of innovation is needed to promote transitions toward decarbonized society. In the course of discussion, I will try to explore implications of various approaches such as sociology of expectations and socio-technical regime theory. In doing so, I will pay particular attention to the multifaceted development of innovations, and clarify the issues that need to be considered in policy responses to solve problems arising from the future challenges.
Keywords: strategy for sustainable food systems (MeaDRI), technological innovation, genome editing, socio-technical regime, sociology of expectations