List of EcoNexus Publications

Gene Drives - a report on their science, applications, social aspects, ethics and regulations

(341 pages)

Gene Drives website

Real problems, false solutions

(7 pages)

Seedling, October 2009

Argentina: A Case Study on the Impact of Genetically Engineered Soya

How producing RR soya is destroying the food security and sovereignty of Argentina

(30 pages)

for The Gaia Foundation

Swords and Ploughshares

Industrial agriculture as warfare and the need for a paradigm shift

in Angie Zelter: The Chains of War - nuclear weapons, militarisation and their impact on society (2014)

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Feed the world?

(4 pages)

The Ecologist, November 2008.

Engineered to fail?

Climate-related Geoengineering

(2 pages)

Agrofuel Moratorium Call

A dangerous precedent

The UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics proposes five ethical principles and a duty to develop biofuels instead of the Precautionary Principle

(2 pages)

English version of an article forthcoming in German in the June issue of umwelt aktuell.

Interview: Thai Rice Farmer on GM crops

Daoreung Pheudphon explains why GM crops are a threat to farmers and won’t feed the world

(2 pages)

Carried out in Bangkok at a public rice fair, 20 February 2005.

New breeding techniques

Open letter to the Commission on new genetic engineering methods

(2 pages)

GM chicken - a solution to bird flu?

Potential Ecological and Social Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees

Commentary on the official background paper by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entitled “The Potential Environmental, Cultural and Socio-Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Trees” (UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/13/INF/6)

(7 pages)

Prepared for CBD SBSTTA 13 Meeting, Rome, Italy, 18-22 February, 2008

Biodiversity should not be expected to earn its living in the market

(1 page)

ECO 41(1)

Genetically engineered gene drives: IUCN report on Synthetic Biology lacks balance

A critique of the IUCN report ‘Genetic Frontiers for Conservation: An assessment of synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation’ – with regards to its assessment of gene drives

(30 pages)

Published by: Critical Scientists Switzerland (CSS), European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER), & Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW/FGS)

Biochar Knowledge Gaps

Commentary

(7 pages)

Terminator Technology

The Threat to World Food Security

(4 pages)

The Ecologist, Sept/Oct 1998

AGROPOLY - A handful of corporations control world food production

(18 pages)

Corporations at Rio+20

Genetically Engineered Trees & Risk Assessment

An overview of risk assessment and risk management issues

(30 pages)

Published by the Federation of German Scientists. Presented at CBD COP9 negotiations on GE trees

Biofuels: how many are invasive alien species?

(1 page)

ECO 40(3)

An EU Perspective on Biosafety Considerations for Plants Developed by Genome Editing and Other New Genetic Modification Techniques (nGMs)

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 7:31. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00031

Can sustainability criteria for certification of agrofuels be effective?

(4 pages)

in: Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policy Sustainable Biofuel Production in Tropical and Subtropical Countries Workshop proceedings 12 June 2008, p. 19-22

Hungry Corporations: transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

(242 pages)

Zed Books, London & New York

Genetic Engineering in Plants and the “New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)”

Inherent risks and the need to regulate

(10 pages)