List of EcoNexus Publications

A horizon scanning survey of gene drive development

Covering research up to 1 September 2024.

(2 pages)

Genetically Engineered American Chestnut:

Discussion of the performance limitations of Darling 58/54

(11 pages)

EcoNexus publication

Gene Drive Development: Current and proposed non-insect targets, including vertebrates, snails, fungi and plants.

A horizon scanning survey (Preliminary publication Nov. 2023)

(33 pages)

Current and proposed insect targets for gene drive development

A horizon scanning survey (Preliminary publication Oct. 2023)

(27 pages)

EcoNexus publication

Current and proposed insect targets for gene drive development (1st Edition)

A horizon scanning survey

(20 pages)

EcoNexus publication

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

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

UK agricultural research: a different approach is urgently needed

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

New Genetic Engineering Techniques: Precaution, Risk, and the Need to Develop Prior Societal Technology Assessment

(11 pages)

In: Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol 59, Issue 5 (The Precautionary Principle Under Fire), pages 38-47 (2017)

The Emperor’s New Clothes - 'New Breeding Techniques' and synthetic biology - genetic engineering by another name

The Ecologist, 04 April 2017

Synthetic biology: A continuing challenge for the CBD

(1 page)

[square brackets], issue 10 (May 2016)

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

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

Inherent risks and the need to regulate

(10 pages)

'Climate-Smart Agriculture' - preparing for a corporate soil and climate-grab in Paris?

The Ecologist, 26 November 2015

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

Declaration

(1 page)

Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive

(10 pages)

Dr Frances Kelsey: thalidomide and the precautionary principle

The Ecologist, August 2015

New breeding techniques

Open letter to the Commission on new genetic engineering methods

(2 pages)

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

AGROPOLY - A handful of corporations control world food production

(18 pages)

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

(40 pages)

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

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

(17 pages)