Ecological & Social Impacts

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)

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

(341 pages)

Gene Drives website

The corruption of agricultural science

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

(20 pages)

Presentation at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, Jan. 2016

Coming to your table?

GMO crops resistant to 'war herbicide' 2,4D

The Ecologist, May 2014

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)

GM crops are driving genocide and ecocide - keep them out of the EU!

The Ecologist, February 2014

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

(17 pages)

Biofuels: how many are invasive alien species?

(1 page)

ECO 40(3)

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

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

Agrofuels: Towards a Reality Check in Nine Key Areas

(36 pages)

Report submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in preparation for SBSTTA 12 (July 2007, Paris, France).

Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees

Implications for Human Health, Biodiversity and Biosafety

(2 pages)

Prepared for CBD COP8 (available in English, Spanish and Portugese)

V-GURTs (Terminator Technology)

Design, Reality and Inherent Risks

(17 pages)

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

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

Hungry Corporations: transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

(242 pages)

Zed Books, London & New York

Argentina and GM soya

The Cost of Complying with US Pressure

(2 pages)

Excerpt from Hungry Corporations - transnational biotech companies colonize the food chain