An examination of technology as a food security solution: boundary work in the co-production of science and politics

A conceptual toolkit comprising of coproduction and boundary work was developed to allow for commonalities and differences to be registered. This research explored forms of co-production between science, technology and politics in the past, and how this looks in the present. <br><br>Interviews were conducted with forty-seven participants from seven different groups of actors, and were analysed using content analysis. Three main situations in which co-production and boundary work was emphasised were identified: interaction in a broader food security setting, the research and development of technology, and technology adoption.

This thesis explores these areas as core chapters to present a better understanding of how science and politics comes together, and how it divides in practice. It identifies patterns between them, but argues that there is a much greater emphasis on how boundaries are created in practice, as opposed to how they are crossed.<br><br>