Levidow, Les; Birch, Kean and Papaioannou, Theo
(2013).
| URL: | http://sth.sagepub.com/content/38/1/94 |
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/0162243912438143 |
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Abstract
The Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) has gained prominence as an agricultural R&D agenda of the European Union. Specific research policies are justified as necessary to create a KBBE for societal progress. Playing the role of a master narrative, the KBBE attracts rival visions; each favours a different diagnosis of unsustainable agriculture and its remedies in agro-food innovation. Each vision links a technoscientific paradigm with a quality paradigm: the dominant life sciences vision combines converging technologies with decomposability, while a marginal one combines agro-ecology with integral product integrity. From these divergent visions, rival stakeholder networks contend for influence over research policies and priorities, especially within the Framework Programme 7 (FP7) on Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology (FAFB), which has aimed to promote a Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy. Although the FAFB programme has favoured a life sciences vision, agro-ecological approaches have gained a presence, thus overcoming their general lock-out from agricultural research agendas. In their own way, each rival paradigm emphasises the need for collective systems to gather information for linking producers with users, as a rationale for the public sector to fund distinctive research priorities.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 The Authors |
| ISSN: | 1552-8251 |
| Funders: | European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 217647, entitled ‘Co-operative Research on Environmental Problems in Europe’ (CREPE) during 2008-10 |
| Keywords: | sustainable agriculture; life sciences; agro-ecology; Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy; agricultural knowledge systems; European Union; Framework Programme 7 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Design, Development, Environment and Materials |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) |
| Item ID: | 33353 |
| Depositing User: | Theo Papaioannou |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2012 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2013 09:54 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33353 |
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