FEASTS co-hosts Masterclass with B-trust – Co-creating Trust: Cultivated Cells

Concentric Ethical Matrix

From questioning to shared understanding through dialogue – the Concentric Ethical Matrix makes ethics a method for responsible transition.

Why It Matters

The CEM-CEBAOF is not a moral checklist but a way of reasoning collectively – it transforms ethical reflection into a transparent and plural process, connecting meaning, evidence and governance across three analytical levels:

• Ontological and cultural foundations — how notions such as “meat” or “animal-free” are constructed and legitimised;
• Intrinsic evaluation — how safety, comparability and life-cycle evidence are examined;
• Systemic–transitional architecture — how justice, governance and diversity are embedded in innovation pathways.
• At its core, the CEM-CEBAOF organises 102 interrelated questions that guide ethical deliberation.

Each question is designed to illuminate rather than conclude, turning disagreement into a resource for understanding.
Together, these 102 questions form a living instrument —a map of reasoning— that links cultural meaning, scientific evidence and institutional responsibility.

Expected Outcomes for FEASTS

This practical session will generate contributions for FEASTS in three main areas:

• Ethical labelling and communication criteria;
• Standards for meaningful transparency;
• Regulatory and ethical coherence within the European framework.

By testing and refining the CEM-CEBAOF, the Workshop aims to build a shared, verifiable space for ethical reasoning, where disciplinary and cultural diversity becomes a driver of responsible transition in food systems.

Framing the Future of Meat: Law,
Technology, and the Politics
of Cultivated Protein

Cultivated meat is an emerging food category that is framed as the future of meat and the
solution to multiple, urgent challenges associated with intensive animal agriculture. Yet,
the role of cultivated meat in food systems change is controversial and the risks, benefits
and perspectives regarding cultivated meat are highly uncertain and contested. In
response, various legal trajectories are developing with implications for how cultivated
meat advances and how publics engage with issues at the interface between food systems
and emerging technologies. This presentation presents findings from socio-legal analyses
of regulatory debates within the US and Australia regarding cultivated meat. It then
considers these findings in light of legal developments in cultivated meat across Singapore,
the US, Australia and New Zealand and the EU. This analysis shows how debates about
cultivated meat grapple with various issues and interpretations about the future of food,
the role of technology and the impact of intensive animal agriculture. It also reveals the
ways in which existing regulatory responses have individually and collectively avoided
dealing with the underlying contestation and comprehensively accounting for the full range
of risks and benefits. This presentation concludes with some potential directions for
alternative regulatory approaches.

Alexandra Sexton (Durkham University, UK)

Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Durham University, Principal researcher of the BBSRC project Is Cultured Meat a Threat or Opportunity for UK Farmers? (2022–24). Co-founder of Cultivate (Cellular Agriculture UK).

Website:
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/alexandra-e-sexton/

Recent publications:
Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming (2024) TUKFS report.

Manning L, Dooley J, Dunsford I, Goodman MK, MacMillan T, Morgans LC, Rose DC, & Sexton AE (2023) Threat or opportunity? An analysis of perceptions of cultured meat in the UK farming sector. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1277511/full

Sexton AE & Goodman MK (2022) Chapter 8: Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene: Towards a cultural political economy of alternative proteins and their implications for future food systems, in Sage C (ed.) A Research Agenda for Food Systems, Edward Elgar Publishing, 175-197.

Sexton AE, Garnett T & Lorimer J (2022) Vegan food geographies and the rise of Big Veganism. Progress in Human Geography. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03091325211051021

Kate Millar (University of Nottingham, UK)

Kate is the Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics. University of Notthingham. Her expertise in the ethics of emerging science and technology, as well as responsible research and innovation policies, provides a valuable balancing perspective to the Future Food leadership team. Kate’s research interests fall under four main areas:

Biotechnology Assessment
Bioethical Analysis
Animal, Agricultural and Food Ethics and
Public and Stakeholder Engagement.

She is currently applying those interests in projects spanning ethical issues in public engagement with science, animal infectious diseases, sustainable bioenergy, clinical use of animal blood and tissue, and technology assessment policies.

Website:
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biosciences/people/kate.millar

Bart Wernaart (Fontys University of Applied Sciences,Netherlands)

Dr. Bart Wernaart is profesor of Moral Design Strategy (since 2021) and Leading Lector COE Sustainable and Circular Transitions (since 2023) at Fontys University of Applied Sciences. He earned his Master’s degree at Tilburg University (2005) and his PhD degree at Waganingen University (2013). During his Phd research, he specialized in the enforceability of human rights in the context of developed countries. Since then, he frequently publishes in the international arena about legal and ethical aspects of international business. Since 2019, he is the main researcher for the Moral Lab, focusing on moral programming challenges. In 2022, he won the first Melanie Petersprijs, issued by the Rathenau Institute for his work on the Moral Data City Hunt method: an applied method to map the moral gut feeling of citizens when discussing new technologies.

Next to his academic career, Bart is a professional musician. In this capacity, he conducts several orchestra’s and choirs, and composes music. He is specialized in playing the vibraphone and drums.

Website:
http://www.drwernaart.com/

Ethical Analysis of CM/CSF: a US Perspective

This talk will situate CM/CSF within the context of US food ethics debates. It will begin with a mapping of the US food issue landscape in order to draw out its complexity. It will then highlight how M/CSF fits within the issue landscape in complex and, in some cases, surprising ways. From one perspective, this could be understood as providing CM/CSF with significant ethical opportunities i.e. pathways for development that could advance food ethics goals. However, from another perspective, it suggests that CM/CSF is likely to face significant ethical headwinds i.e. limitations on how ethically accepted it will be. The aim is not to provide an assessment of CM/CSF, but to indicate the types of issues that it raises and the sort of debates that it is likely to become bound up with in the US context.

Prof. Ronald Sandler

Prof. Ronald Sandler is a professor of philosophy and Director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. His areas of research are environmental ethics, ethics of emerging technologies, and ethical theory. He has done extensive work, often as part of interdisciplinary and practitioner collaborations, conducting ethics and value analyses of biotechnology applications in agricultural and conservation contexts. He is author of Character and Environment (Columbia); The Ethics of Species (Cambridge); Environmental
Ethics: Theory in Practice (Oxford); and Food Ethics (Routledge). He is editor or co-editor of Environmental Virtue Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield); Environmental Justice and Environmentalism (MIT); and Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Palgrave). Sandler’s research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Woodrow Wilson Center, among others.

Website:
https://cssh.northeastern.edu/ethics/

The Politics of Culturing Meat in the Plantationocene: Remaking Ideological Landscapes and Global Metabolisms

New technologies can be seen not merely as threats to existing ways of life, but also to reveal implicit ideologies of contemporary forms of production and consumption. Over the past two decades, in vitro/ cultured meat has emerged in a range of different forms – from products such as hamburgers or sausages, to research efforts such as generating alternatives to FBS, to artistic performances. Each iteration projects particular modes of organizing production, promoting particular regional and global metabolic relations of flows of substances, and imagining certain types of consumers and food cultures. And each is set against (other) alternatives as well as presumptions about the status quo, which appears in particular ways depending on geographic context and cultural imaginations of what makes meat.
Starting from the inherent ambiguity of meat, in this talk Dr Clemens Driessen will hint at possible ways in which the ‘Plantationocene’ as a way of defining our planetary predicament (contrasted with other proposals such as Anthropocene and Capitalocene) could offer more comprehensive ways to critically engage with global flows of feed, meat, meaning and technoscientific knowledge, as these are assembled locally as part of novel meat futures.

Dr Clemens Driessen

Dr Clemens Driessen is a cultural geographer at Wageningen University who is interested in animals, agriculture, food and nature. He started out studying ethical questions in ways that presume universal answers and abstract conceptual clarity – but found himself turning into a geographer: ethics happens in places, and emerges from material, embodied and affective relations across space, which can be creatively engaged with through design. Besides studying farmers, conservationists, cows, pigs and robots in the places in which these encounter each
other, he has done archival research on backbreeding and rewilding, and consumer/citizen research on cultured meat. He often collaborates with designers and artists, such as to develop video games for bored pigs on intensive farms to play with their prospective consumers, and in a recent overview of art, science, design and engineering around water: ‘Waal & Driessen eds. (2025) Water Works; Ecosocial Design. Valiz publishers, Amsterdam.

Website:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food
systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00069/full

Reasons for Hope: the Brazilian Alternative Protein Ecosystem

Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world and is a major food producing country. Is such combination a reason to worry? Yes, but perhaps such incompatibility may be attenuated. Maybe food production can become less damaging to the environment and to animals. The launching of the first cell-based burger, led by professor Mark Post and his collaborators in 2013, is a key moment for cellular agriculture worldwide. Well before that, many brands of plant-based meat were available at the supermarkets. Taken together, the so-called new protein production systems offer a variety of options for the supply of the ever increasing global demand for meat. In Brazil, while the plant-based industry is more established, research and development in innovative fermentation systems as well as cell culture for food production are only beginning to flourish. As expected with disruptive innovations, many challenges present themselves, especially in the initial phases. Some strength to face the challenges in the country comes from the appearance of startups, the engagement of Universities and traditional research institutions, the investments of major food companies as well as public ones, and the foundation of the Brazilian Association of Cellular Agriculture – Cell Ag Brazil. Thus, there are reasons for hope, as innovation may rescue sustainability and animal ethics in food production. Together with the hope, there is a sense of urgency, as we see the devastating effects of climatic changes and the dreadful number of animals killed per second for food, among other dramatic effects of intensive animal production.

Dr Carla Forte Maiolino Molento

Dr Carla Forte Maiolino Molento holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Paraná (1990), an MSc in Veterinary Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná (1995), a PhD in Animal Science from McGill University, Canada (2001), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Animal Welfare from the ILVO Institute, Belgium (2011). She is currently a full professor at the Federal University of Paraná, coordinator of the Animal Welfare Laboratory (LABEA/UFPR), and coordinator of the Cellular Animal Science Laboratory (Zoocel/UFPR). She teaches the courses on Ethology, Animal Welfare, and Cellular Animal Science for students in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science. She supervises undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral research in Animal Welfare and Cellular Animal Science within the Graduate Program in Veterinary Sciences at UFPR. She is a Productivity Fellow in Research at CNPq. She has experience in teaching, diagnosing, and improving the welfare of animals used for production, companionship, and laboratory purposes. More recently, she has been focusing on research and teaching in Cellular Animal Science, involving alternative methods to the use of animals for food production. She was a visiting researcher at Wageningen University and Research in 2024. She coordinates the New Research and Innovation Arrangement in Alternative Proteins, funded by the Araucaria Foundation, and currently is the president of the Brazilian Association for Cellular Agriculture Cell Ag Brazil.

Why Societal Ambivalence Needs to Be More Visible. With Special Focus on Social Contexts

The mere idea of cultured meat triggers much ambivalence, including mixed feelings about traditional meat that tend to remain implicit in daily life. Ambivalence leads to uncomfortable feelings, especially when you need to make decisions, and it is always tempting to flee the discomfort instead of staying with it. Stranger perhaps is that ambivalence has also suffered from neglect and unfavourable views in psychology and philosophy, including consumer studies, where the assumption of a unilinear arrangement of preferences does much to hide ambivalence from sight. And yet our preferences inevitably come with tensions, especially in times of change.

We are social animals and change happens in social contexts. Vegans, or animal farmers who develop moral concerns about what they are doing, are often reluctant to voice their moral worries about animals. Such concerns then remain hidden not because of denial but because of fear and social uncertainty. In focusing on ambivalence in social life, I will therefore also refer to fear, uncertainty and specific forms of ignorance.

One reason that such tensions and mixed feelings deserve more attention is that they are helpful for finding joint ground and novel solutions, as the example of ‘the pig in the backyard’ illustrates.

Cor van der Weele

Cor van der Weele is emeritus professor of humanistic philosophy at the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. After graduating in biology (genetics) and philosophy, she did her PhD in the philosophy of biology (1995), focusing on epigenetic / interactive mechanisms in order to overcome the narrow attention on genes in explanations of embryological development. Since then, selective attention in many forms has remained a main focus in her work.
She comes from an arable farm where in former times peas were grown. In the 1970s, following Frances Moore Lappé, she believed that peas, beans, lentils and other pulses were going to replace meat. which then did not happen, and around 2007 she became interested in cultured meat as something that might finally help. In studying how people responded to this new idea, it became clear that the idea of cultured meat also triggered tensions about ‘normal’ meat. Strategic ignorance and ambivalence emerged as important themes.
She is now co-owner of the family farm, where growing pulses (fava beans) has been revived. Putting her hopes in both pulses and cellular agriculture, she has been arguing for overcoming the dualism between wizards and prophets, see e.g. her farewell lecture ‘Either-or-and’ :
https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/eitherorand-from-dualism-to-ambivalence

Website:
WUR: https://www.wur.nl/nl/personen/cor-van-der-weele.htm

The Promised Land? Exploring the Future Visions and Narrative Silences of Cellular Agriculture

Cultivated proteins aim to decouple animal protein production from animal bodies so as to address a suite of ethical, environmental, social and health implications connected to animal agriculture. As a period of significant hype comes to a abrupt end, this presentation reflects on the evolution of narratives around cultivated proteins. In doing so, I wish to explore three dimensions. Firstly, the explicit vision proponents of the technology have articulated, it’s promises and inherent tensions. Secondly, the slowly evolving counter narratives that emphasized the environmental, rural and spatial implications of the technologies, and sought to mobilise resistance around these concerns. Thirdly, an area of significant narrative silence, the role of a particular model of venture capital finance that are driven significant discursive and technological trajectories, and which has been under-assessed as a factor driving this sector. In conclusion, Dr Richard Halliwel reflects on the consequences of cultivated proteins for grappling with socio-technological projects, promises and future expectations in the current moment.

Dr Richard Halliwell

Dr Richard Halliwell’s research covers themes at the boundary between agriculture, land use, science and political questions. These topics include the social and ethical dimensions of gene editing, antimicrobial resistance in livestock farming, cultivated meat and milk proteins, and the development of the bioeconomy. Since joining Ruralis in 2020, he has been involved in a number of projects, including Protein 2.0 and Arrival focused on the development and implications of cultured proteins. SYNAGRI which examines the processes through which bioeconomic developments are integrated into regional food systems, and MatMakt, which focuses on the role of power dynamics in shaping sustainability transitions within the food system.

Website:
https://ruralis.no/ansatte/richard-helliwell/

Prof. Andrea Borghini

Prof. Andrea Borghini is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and Director of Culinary Mind. His research develops conceptual tools to transform food systems toward sustainability, justice, and inclusivity, combining philosophy with insights from the natural and social sciences. He is editor of the Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Food series.
His recent books include Gastrospaces: A Philosophy Study of Where We Eat (Routledge, 2025), Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property (Routledge, 2024), and Scienza S.P.A. (Mondadori, 2024). Earlier works cover metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology.
Borghini’s articles, published in leading journals such as Nature Food and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, explore topics like food ontology, climate change, and cultural heritage.
He previously taught at the College of the Holy Cross (USA) and held visiting positions at Columbia University, Institut Jean-Nicod, and other institutions. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and his Laurea from the University of Florence.

Website:
https://sites.unimi.it/borghini/

Defending Technological Solutions: Responding to Arguments Against Cell Cultured Meat

Cultured meat has great potential to be part of solution strategies related to several of the planets most significant problems. Nevertheless, there are those who argue that we ought not to pursue the technology. In this talk, I will address the moral and cultural objections raised against cultured meat. I’ll discuss the aesthetic and epistemic challenges to acceptance of its implementation. I will argue that producing meat in this way changes the moral landscape of a cluster of important debates and I’ll conclude that cultured meat constitutes significant moral progress.

Dr Rachel Robison-Greene

Dr Rachel Robison-Greene earned her PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2017. Her research interests are largely in meta-ethics, epistemology, and applied ethics, especially as it pertains to animals, the environment, and technology. She is the author of the book Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations and the co-author of the book Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Coronavirus. Rachel serves as the Secretary of the Culture and Animals Foundation and is the Chair Elect of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.

Prof. Giancarlo Anello

Prof. Giancarlo Anello studied law in Palermo, Rome, and Arabic in Damascus, Nizwa, Tunis, and Amman. He is currently Full Professor of Law and Religion at the Department of Law, Political and International Studies at the University of Parma-Italy; and a lawyer. He earned a law degree from the University of Palermo and a PhD in Law from the University of Roma “la Sapienza”. He has published books and articles on law and religion and human rights topics and his current research includes Intercultural Legal Subjectivity, Religions, Languages and the Public Legal Sphere. Moreover, Giancarlo Anello is a Kaiciid Dialogue Center (Wien/Lisbon) Fellow for 2021. Since 2024 he is Delegate of the Rector for the International Relations with the Middle East and a Member of the Scientific Council of CAM (Campus Arabo Mediterraneo). He is also a member of the board “Islam” in the Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST).

Website:
https://unipr.academia.edu/giancarloanello

What Does It Mean to Shape Responsible Innovation in Cellular Agriculture? Ethical-Political Challenges in Governing Food Futures

Cellular agriculture is emerging as a “solution” to the ethical and environmental problems of industrial food systems, relying on anticipatory practices—promises, roadmaps, and imaginaries—that actively shape desirable and undesirable food futures. Alongside these, normative approaches aim to make science and innovation responsible from early stages, addressing the Collingridge dilemma, preventing lock-in, and aligning innovation with societal values. Anticipation – the use of future representations in the present—is thus seen as essential for responsible innovation.
This talk explores how to shape responsibility within this anticipatory domain, arguing that it requires rethinking how anticipation is conceptualized and practiced. It proposes to (1) situate calls for responsibility within a landscape “pregnant with futures” that shape what is deemed (un)desirable or (im)plausible, and (2) assess, within this landscape, the reflective capacity of anticipatory practices guiding innovation. To do so, it outlines four analytical dimensions—temporality, inclusivity, scope of reflection, and relation to practice—to evaluate whether these practices open or constrain spaces for learning and critique. The key question is not just whether anticipation should guide governance, but what kinds of anticipation should be fostered: those reproducing the status quo or those critically interrogating who makes futures, how, and with what implications.

Dr Sergio Urueña

Dr Sergio Urueña is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Basque Government at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, Science and Values awarded with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize and the International Mention, and a Master’s degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science awarded with the extraordinary Doctoral Prize – both from the University of Salamanca, where he also completed his BA in Philosophy. His research sits at the crossroads of political philosophy of technology, anticipation and futures studies, and science and technology studies. He is interested in how we think about and use the future — through foresight, scenarios, imaginaries, and other anticipatory practices— to shape the governance of science, technology, and innovation toward more socially responsible directions. His work seeks to understand how “futures” are co-produced and mobilized, and how they could be used to make scientific and technological development more reflective, inclusive, and democratic.
Sergio has been Visiting Guest Researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and at the Centre for Technology and Society of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. He has authored more than 35 academic publications, including articles in leading international journals such as Social Studies of Science, Futures, Journal of Responsible Innovation, NanoEthics, and Recerca. He is also the editor of one collective volume published by Biblioteca Nueva and the author of multiple book chapters with publishers including Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, and Tecnos.
He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Responsible Technology and Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies.

Website:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1084-2709

Can X-Phi Solve the Puzzle of Lab-Grown Meat?

We argue for the existence of a moral dilemma – the ‘Puzzle of Lab-Grown Meat’– which challenges those who would endorse the moral permissibility of eating lab-grown meat, such as lab-grown chicken. The puzzle is that it is unclear why the moral permissibility of eating lab-grown meat should not extend to all lab grown meat, such as white rhino or human, yet intuitively, we consider such meat morally impermissible to consume. To reject this challenge forces an endorsement of one of two implausibly strong positions: either that all lab-grown meat is morally impermissible to eat or that all lab-grown meat is morally permissible to eat. To accept this challenge, is to attempt to solve the puzzle by providing a morally relevant distinction between ‘fair-game’ and ‘off-limits’ lab-grown meat.
We present findings from X-Phi research that have investigated moral attitudes towards the puzzle of lab-grown meat in the US.

Dr John Goris

Dr Goris completed his PhD on “Animal Labour and Alienation under Capitalism” where he applied Marx’s normative concepts and political economy to an analysis of animal work. Since then, his research interests have broadened to include moral identity, bioethical issues in animal research and normative issues raised by lab-grown meat.

Key publication:
Montefiore, T., & Goris, J. (2025). The Puzzle of Lab-Grown Meat. Food Ethics, 10(1), 1.

The Ethics of Food Labeling, with Application to Cultured Meat

Ethical standards for food labels arise at the intersection of morality, law and politics. Regulations create a framework in which some product claims are required, some are proscribed, some are permitted and still others must be consistent with regulated language. Each of these legal categories comes with its own rationale in social ethics. Further ethical considerations operate within the constraints created by this framework of regulatory rights and responsibilities. Here, classic utilitarian justifications contend with rights-based considerations, creating a tension that spawned debate over labeling of GMOs. Labels for cultured meat, milk and eggs will be developed within an ethical framework in which it will be impossible to satisfy the ethically-based desires of everyone.

Prof. Paul B. Thompson

Prof. Paul B. Thompson, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Philosophy and of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University. In 1980 he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Stony Brook University,where he completed a dissertation in the philosophy of technology under the supervision of Don Ihde. He held joint positions between departments of philosophy and the college of agriculture at Texas A&M University and Purdue University before assuming the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University in 2003. He has lectured on the ethics and philosophy of agriculture in over thirty nations and has received numerous forms of recognition, including career research awards from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics and “Book of the Year for 2025,” given for From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His most recent book is What Is Agriculture For? Archetypes for Future Food System, published in 2025 by Oxford University Press.

Website:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0555-9914

Narratives and the Consequent Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Cultured Meat and Seafood in Japan

Characterized by high import dependence and limited natural resources, food security remains one of the key priorities for the Japanese government. Consequently, there has been an increase in support and promotion of agri-food tech innovation in Japan, including cellular agriculture, with several companies, along with academic actors and civil society organizations, working in the development of cultured meat and seafood (CM/CSF). This study draws on the sociotechnical imaginaries literature to explore how CM/CSF are envisioned and materialized by advocates within Japan and what this implies for the country’s food future.
Building on existing literature analysing the promissory discourse of alternative proteins (APs), the study first investigates the rhetorical strategies implemented by key stakeholders through media analysis and semi-structured interviews. The findings identify key promissory narratives that offer insights into how proponents materialize CM/CSF as good foods, and examine the differences in the framings from those in the European and American literatura. By exploring the development of cellular agriculture and its promissory landscape, the study then maps out four broader imaginaries of APs, including CM/CSF. The sociotechnical imaginaries provide insight into the future of food envisioned by AP players, unveiling the influence of the countryʼs political culture. This study seeks to contribute to the growing literature of the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN) by examining the rise of technology in agri-food systems and attempting to foster responsible innovation.

Sakshi Gupta and Prof. Shuji Hisano

Sakshi Gupta is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. Her research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies and critical agri-food studies, focusing on the socio-political implications of precision agriculture technologies on Indiaʼs peasant agriculture. She previously earned her Masterʼs Degree in the same program at Kyoto University, where she examined the narratives and sociotechnical imaginaries of Alternative Proteins in Japan. At this workshop, she presents a part of her masterʼs thesis research.

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Prof. Shuji Hisano is a professor of international political economy of agriculture in the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University. He received a masterʼs degree in economic policy (1993) at Kyoto University and a doctoral degree in agricultural economics (2001) at Hokkaido University. He did his visiting research at Wageningen University (2002‒2004) and VU University Amsterdam (2012). His research interests include global governance of food security, industrialisation of agricultural (bio)technology, social responsibility and regulation of transnational agribusiness corporations, international comparative study of agrarian and rural development, and local governance of urban food policy. He has served as the Director of the Asian Platform for Global Sustainability & Transcultural Studies at Kyoto University.