TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting Ethically Responsible Use of Agricultural Biotechnology
AU - Harfouche, Antoine L.
AU - Petousi, Vasiliki
AU - Meilan, Richard
AU - Sweet, Jeremy
AU - Twardowski, Tomasz
AU - Altman, Arie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Growing global demands for food, bioenergy, and specialty products, along with the threat posed by various environmental changes, present substantial challenges for agricultural production. Agricultural biotechnology offers a promising avenue for meeting these challenges; however, ethical and sociocultural concerns must first be addressed, to ensure widespread public trust and uptake. To be effective, we need to develop solutions that are ethically responsible, socially responsive, relevant to people of different cultural and social backgrounds, and conveyed to the public in a convincing and straightforward manner. Here, we highlight how ethical approaches, principled decision-making strategies, citizen-stakeholder participation, effective science communication, and bioethics education should be used to guide responsible use of agricultural biotechnology.
AB - Growing global demands for food, bioenergy, and specialty products, along with the threat posed by various environmental changes, present substantial challenges for agricultural production. Agricultural biotechnology offers a promising avenue for meeting these challenges; however, ethical and sociocultural concerns must first be addressed, to ensure widespread public trust and uptake. To be effective, we need to develop solutions that are ethically responsible, socially responsive, relevant to people of different cultural and social backgrounds, and conveyed to the public in a convincing and straightforward manner. Here, we highlight how ethical approaches, principled decision-making strategies, citizen-stakeholder participation, effective science communication, and bioethics education should be used to guide responsible use of agricultural biotechnology.
KW - bioethics education
KW - ethical reasoning
KW - plant biotechnology
KW - public and political engagement
KW - responsible research and innovation
KW - science communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099616848&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.12.015
DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.12.015
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C2 - 33483266
AN - SCOPUS:85099616848
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 26
SP - 546
EP - 559
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 6
ER -