HYBRID REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON ‘‘THE RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE OF INNOVATIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY’’

This workshop aimed at exploring innovations and technologies to ensure and enhance food security and how their implementation can be governed responsibly, especially in light of two new policy initiatives in relation to the implementation of two technologies to address food security, namely of GM crops and antibiotics in livestock farming

Objectives of the workshop

Kenya is one of the countries hardest hit by food insecurity as well as a global hotbed for antimicrobial resistance in livestock. Moreover, Kenya is considering lifting the GMO ban and use of GM crops, the impact of which on smallholder farmers is not yet clear. The main goal of this two day event was to discuss scenarios and guidelines with regard to the use of antibiotics and GM crops. The workshop is part of a project between the University of Nairobi and the University of Warwick on the “Ethics: Technological Risk Governance and Food Security” and focusing on innovations such as the use of antibiotics and GM crops.