List of EcoNexus Publications

Some of our publications are (more) technical, also providing a thorough review of the scientific literature to a specific topic coupled with original analysis.

All publications are either completely online or can be downloaded as PDF.

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Commentary

GM chicken - a solution to bird flu?

Jan 2011 Commentary

Biochar Knowledge Gaps

Commentary

Helena Paul

(7 pages)

Apr 2011 Commentary

Swords and Ploughshares

Industrial agriculture as warfare and the need for a paradigm shift

Helena Paul

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

Large-scale bioenergy must be excluded from the renewable energy definition

Declaration

(1 page)

Aug 2015 Open Letter

Agrofuel Moratorium Call

Jun 2007 Open Letter

New breeding techniques

Open letter to the Commission on new genetic engineering methods

Francesco Panella, Nina Holland, Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Andrea Ferrante, Mute Schimpf, Dr Helen Wallace, Saskia Richartz, Christoph Then

(2 pages)

Jan 2015 Open Letter

CSO statement on the planned field release of GM mosquitos

Statement of Concern from Civil Society Organizations Regarding Field Release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

EcoNexus as one of 87 civil society organisations

(5 pages)

Dec 2010 Open Letter

Open Letter on the release of GM mosquitos in Malaysia

Open Letter from Civil Society Organizations in Response to the Field Release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in Malaysia

EcoNexus as one of 74 civil society organizations around the world

(4 pages)

Feb 2011 Open Letter

Calling the corporations to account

Helena Paul

(4 pages)

Aug 2011 Opinion piece

Corporations are not human, so why should they have human rights?

Helena Paul

(6 pages)

Aug 2011 Opinion piece

UK agricultural research: a different approach is urgently needed

Helena Paul

For whom? Questioning the food and farming research agenda - a special edition magazine from the Food Ethics Council
Jan 2018 Opinion piece

Synthetic Biology

Letter to New Scientist

Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher

(1 page)

New Scientiest, Issue 2772, p.24-25, 7 August 2010
Jul 2010 Opinion piece

Why we should continue to oppose the inclusion of agriculture in the climate negotiations

Helena Paul

(11 pages)

Feb 2012 Opinion piece

Rio+20: Where's the debate about corporate power?

A response to the proposal for a Convention on Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Helena Paul

(2 pages)

May 2012 Opinion piece

Food Security and Food Safety

Assumptions, Technology, Research and Sustainability

by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher

Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Federation of German Scientists (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler – VDW)
Mar 2005 Presentation

The corruption of agricultural science

The impacts of GM crops in Argentina: with pictures from Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil

Helena Paul

(20 pages)

Presentation at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, Jan. 2016
Jan 2016 Presentation

V-GURTs (Terminator Technology)

Design, Reality and Inherent Risks

by EcoNexus and the Federation of German Scientists; lead author: Ricarda A. Steinbrecher, PhD

(17 pages)

Submission to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Working Group on Article 8(j)
Jan 2006 Report

African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Who benefits, who loses?

Helena Paul and Ricarda Steinbrecher

(17 pages)

May 2013 Report

A Foreseeable Disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab

Helena Paul

(40 pages)

Published by Transnational Institute, FDCL and Econexus for Hands off the Land Alliance
Jun 2013 Report

Agriculture and Climate Change - Real Problems, False Solutions

by Helena Paul, Almuth Ernsting, Stella Semino, Susanne Gura & Antje Lorch - EcoNexus, Biofuelwatch, Grupo de Reflexion Rural, NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), and The Development Fund Norway

(44 pages)

Report published for the Conference of the Parties, COP15, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, December 2009.
Dec 2009 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, Stella Semino, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina and Helena Paul, EcoNexus

(30 pages)

for The Gaia Foundation
Mar 2005 Report

Genetically Engineered Trees & Risk Assessment

An overview of risk assessment and risk management issues

by Ricarda A. Steinbrecher and Antje Lorch

(30 pages)

Published by the Federation of German Scientists. Presented at CBD COP9 negotiations on GE trees
Apr 2008 Report

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

Critical Scientists Switzerland (CSS), European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) and Federation of German Scientists (FGS/VDW)

(341 pages)

Gene Drives website
May 2019 Report

AGROPOLY - A handful of corporations control world food production

EcoNexus & Berne Declaration

(18 pages)

Aug 2013 Report