Abstract
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.