... historical waves in scientific and technological (S&T) evidence, we show how the production and use of evidence has evolved within the capitalist and colonial/modern world to imbue specific food futures with legitimacy and power. We then turn to our case: gene editing of crops for carbon drawdown. Over...

...), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . GMO Gene editing Biotechnology Agricultural development Knowledge politics Africa Over the past decade...

... 32 countries have established National Rice Development Strategies to increase local production and to achieve rice self-sufficiency. Several of these countries have shown policy interest to use modern biotechnological advancements, including gene editing, to ensure increases in rice productivity...

...Koen Beumer; Sanne de Roij Gene editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas are breathing new life into expectations about the benefits of genetically modified crops for smallholder farmers in the global South. In this article, we put these expectations to the test. We have interrogated both whether crop...

...Esha Shah; David Ludwig; Phil Macnaghten The rapid development of CRISPR-based gene editing has been accompanied by a polarized governance debate about the status of CRISPR-edited crops as genetically modified organisms. This article argues that the polarization around the governance of gene...

...Senna Middelveld; Phil Macnaghten Gene editing technologies allow users to make in vivo (live) changes to an organism’s DNA. Advances in the field of gene editing have made it arguably more precise, efficient, flexible, and cheaper compared to previous technologies. This has generated an upsurge...

...Sara Nawaz; Susanna Klassen; Alexandra Lyon; Alastair Iles; Elizabeth Fitting A host of technologies is rapidly entering agriculture. These new technologies—particularly gene editing—represent multifaceted shifts beyond “genetic modification” (GM), and are outpacing both public understanding...

...Maywa Montenegro de Wit; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Elizabeth Fitting Many trends in agricultural biotechnology have extended fluidly from the first era of genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques to the era of gene editing. But the high-profile, explicit, and assertive discourse...