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Publications

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

ZED BOOKS, London October 2003, 242 pages

All chapters available as pdf files

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Briefings and reports

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List of EcoNexus publications

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Topics Title and authors Grading PDF HTML
Genetic engineering


Food Security/ Sovereignty		 Report: 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 and Stella Semino, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina, and Helena Paul, EcoNexus
Report for The Gaia Foundation

Report
April 2005

30 pages

 445 KB pdf file  
Genetic engineering


Food Security/ Sovereignty		 Summary: Argentina: A Case Study on the Impact of Genetically Engineered Soya
How producing RR soya is destroying the food security and sovereignty of Argentina
Executive Summary by Helena Paul of the 2004 report by Doctor Lilian Joensen and Stella Semino MA
Rural Reflection Group, Argentina,
Joint EcoNexus / Gaia Foundation briefing

Briefing October 2004

4 pages

 81 KB pdf file  
Genetic engineering Report: Genome Scrambling – Myth or Reality?
Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop Plants
by Allison Wilson, Jonathan Latham and Ricarda Steinbrecher		 Technical Report
October 2004

36 pages
 628 KB pdf file  
Genetic engineering Summary: Genome Scrambling – Myth or Reality?
Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop Plants
by Allison Wilson, Jonathan Latham and Ricarda Steinbrecher

Technical Summary
October 2004

4 pages

 88 KB pdf file  
Genetic engineering GM-Gene Flow (b):
Horizontal gene transfer of viral inserts from GM plants to viruses
by Jonathan Latham and Ricarda Steinbrecher
 Technical Paper
February 2004

8 pages
130 KB pdf file N/A
Food security

Genetic engineering		 Golden Rice, Patents and Vitamin A Deficiency
by Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher
 Briefing
October 2003

4 pages
 73 KB pdf file N/A
Genetic engineering Argentina and GM soya:
The Cost of Complying with US Pressure
by Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher
 Briefing
October 2003

2 pages
 63 KB pdf file N/A
Genetic engineering The CaMV 35S Promoter
Government and Corporate Scientific Incompetence: Failure to assess the safety of GM crops
by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher
 Briefing
December 2002

2 pages
 66 KB pdf file N/A
Genetic engineering Ecological Consequences of Genetic Engineering
by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher
 Book Chapter
March 2001

14 pages
    
Genetic engineering Genetic Dialectic
The Biological Politics of Genetically Modified Trees
by Viola Sampson and Larry Lohmann
 Briefing
December 2000

12 pages
 85 KB pdf file N/A
Patenting of life Patenting Genes
Stifling Research and Jeopardising Healthcare
joint EcoNexus/ GeneWatch publication
 Briefing
April 2001

4 pages
 144 KB pdf file N/A
Terminator technology Terminator Technology
The Threat to World Food Security
by Ricarda A Steinbrecher and Pat Roy Mooney
 Article
The Ecologist
October 1998

4 pages
    
Corporations Who’s In Charge?
What are Corporations? Where did they come from? How did they become so powerful?
Daniel Bennett with Helena Paul
For Programme on Corporations, Law and Democracy - Guest Paper -
 Briefing
October 2004 (original paper 1998)

6 pages

 107 KB pdf file  

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EcoNexus briefings and reports are non-copyright but please acknowledge EcoNexus when quoting or presenting our material.

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Our book Hungry Corporations - Transnational Biotech Companies Colonise the Food Chain can be ordered below and selected extracts are available on this website.

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Grading

Articles: Articles are written for non-specialists and contain few references.

EcoNexus Briefings: (2-16 pages) Briefings are written to be comprehensible to non-specialists. Important references of source materials are provided.

ExoNexus Reports: (from 20 pages upwards) Reports, like briefings are written to be comprehensible to non-specialists. All scientific information contained in reports is based on data published in the scientific literature or other attributed sources. A complete list of journal or book references and any other sources are provided in each report.

EcoNexus Technical Reports: Econexus Technical Reports provide a thorough review of the scientific literature pertaining to a specific topic coupled with original analysis. Technical scientific reports are based mainly on research published in peer reviewed scientific journals. A complete list of journal or book references and any other sources are provided in each report. They are intended for readers with a [reasonable] knowledge of biology or molecular genetics.