The inclusion of diverse stakeholder perspectives is essential for responsibly developing new technologies in food and agriculture. In a USDA/NIFA-funded project, we developed and conducted an online stakeholder engagement platform to elicit views of nanotechnology used in food and agriculture. Overall, the online platform proved to be a cost-effective mechanism to engage various stakeholders to better understand their views and have them discuss pros and cons of new (nano)technologies for food/ag systems. This presentation provides a brief overview of the online platform to engage stakeholders and discuss strengths and weaknesses of the approach to improve future engagement efforts that use virtual tools.

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Grieger K. 2023. Lessons learned in using an online stakeholder engagement platform. University of Idaho. https://doi.org/10.7923/es5c-6m41

Funding
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture: 2019-67023-29855
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture: 2022-67023-36730
National Science Foundation, EngageINFEWS Research Coordination Network: 1856059