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Welcome to the Econexus website

EcoNexus is a not-for-profit public interest research organisation. It investigates and analyses developments in science and technology. It offers a rigorous scientific critique of genetic engineering (GE) and genetically modified organisms, and more recently of agrofuels (biofuels), synthetic biology and other new technological applications. It investigates and reports on the impacts of these technologies on the environment, biodiversity, human and animal health, food security, agriculture, human rights and society. EcoNexus also examines the influence of corporations on development issues and scientific, social, economic and political processes. It is based in the UK and collaborates with a diversity of networks nationally and internationally.

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Scientific publications

 


Analysis and case studies

Report: May 2008 – 30 pages
Genetically Engineered Trees & Risk Assessment: An overview of risk assessment and risk management issues
by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch
Published by the Federation of German Scientists. Presented at CBD COP9 negotiations on GE trees
* download report 261 KB pdf file

 

Report: December 2007 – 24 pages
GE Rice: The Genetic Engineering of the World’s Leading Staple Crop
by Dr. Ricarda A. Steinbrecher
for Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific
* download report 857 KB pdf file

 

Peer reviewed paper: December 2006 - 26 pages
Transformation-induced Mutations in Transgenic Plants: Analysis and Biosafety Implications
by Allison Wilson, PhD, Jonathan Latham, PhD and Ricarda Steinbrecher, PhD
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* download paper 898 KB pdf file

 

Report: January 2006 – 17 pages
V-GURTs (Terminator Technology): Design, Reality and Inherent Risks
Submission to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Working Group on Article 8(j) by EcoNexus and the Federation of German Scientists; lead author: Ricarda A. Steinbrecher, PhD.
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* download report/ submission: 449 KB pdf file
The report can also be found as the official Information Document
UNEP/CBD/WG8J/4/INF/17 on the CBD website (http://www.biodiv.org/doc/
meetings/tk/wg8j-04/information/
wg8j-04-inf-17-en.pdf)

 

Technical Report: October 2004 - 36 pages
Genome Scrambling – Myth or Reality? Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop Plants
by Allison Wilson, PhD, Jonathan Latham, PhD and Ricarda Steinbrecher, PhD
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* download summary: 88 KB pdf file
* download report: 628 KB pdf file

 

  

Final Report
Agriculture and Climate Change: Real Problems, False Solutions
by Helena Paul, Almuth Ernsting, Stella Semino, Susanne Gura & Antje Lorch Published by Econexus, Biofuelwatch, Grupo de Reflexion Rural and NOAH - Friends of the Earth Denmark
Final version: Comprehensively revised for Copenhagen, including a new chapter. December 2009. (Copenhagen) - 44 pages
* download final report 409 KB pdf file
* download executive summary of final report 203 KB pdf file
Draft version 2: September 2009 (Bangkok) - 34 pages
* download preliminary report (v2) 556 KB pdf file
* download executive summary report (v2) 199 KB pdf file
Draft version 1: June 2009 (Bonn) - 32 pages
* download preliminary report 392 KB pdf file
* download executive summary report 89 KB pdf file

* Download translations into Spanish/traducción en español: Agricultura y Cambio Climático- Problemas reales, soluciones falsas: sumario y el documento completo.

 

Briefing: November 2009 - 2 pages
Agriculture and Soils in Carbon Trading
Briefing on the dangers of including soil carbon sequestration in any Copenhagen agreement
Prepared by Jonathan Ensor, Practical Action, Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch, Susanne Gura, EcoNexus,Helena Paul, EcoNexus
* download briefing 62 KB pdf file

 

Briefing: September 2008 - 8 pages
Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands
Agrofuels and the Myth of Marginal Lands
by the African Biodiversity Network, Biofuelwatch, EcoNexus, the Gaia Foundation, Salva La Selva and Watch Indonesia
* download briefing 282 KB pdf file

 

Report: July 2007 - 34 pages
Agrofuels: Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas
Agrofuels: Towards a reality check in nine key areas
This paper sets out critical concerns regarding direct and indirect impacts of agrofuel (production) in light of the current push to develop agrofuels in transport, especially in industrialised countries.
Report prepared in collaboration of eleven organisations for the SBSTTA 12 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Paris July 2007.
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* download report: 366 KB pdf file

 

Report: March 2005 - 30 pages
Argentina: A Case Study on the Impact of Genetically Engineered Soya
How producing RR soya is destroying the food security and sovereignty of Argentina
by Lilian Joensen, Stella Semino, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina and Helena Paul, EcoNexus for The Gaia Foundation
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* download executive summary 81 KB pdf file
* download report 445 KB pdf file

 

Hungry Corporations
Transnational Biotech Companies Colonise the Food Chain
 by Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher with Devlin Kuyek & Lucy Michaels

All chapters now available as PDF files

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ZED BOOKS, London 2003

Hungry Corporations cover‘Hungry Corporations tells us how the biotech industry and their captive governments use Third World hunger as the justification for force feeding the world with GMOs, while it is really their own hunger for profits and power which is driving the commercialization of GM crops and foods. Written by authors who have been in the frontline of fighting the biotech giants, Hungry Corporations is a valuable resource for researchers, activists and ordinary citizens determined to defend their freedom’ – Vandana Shiva, author, Staying Alive