Library material summaryIn this report, we examine the state of corporate concentration in six sectors critical to agriculture: commercial seeds, pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, farm machinery, animal pharmaceuticals and livestock genetics.
Library material summaryThis report emphasizes that to enable food sovereignty and agroecology, the impact of digital agricultural technologies must be evaluated based on the kinds of connections they foster, and their implications for farmer agency, ecological sustainability, and socio- economic equity.
Library material summaryThe United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has for 30 years governed new developments in biotechnology, in the frame of precaution and justice, and has also recently established a process of technology horizon scanning, assessment, and monitoring of new developments. Now, there is an industrial attempt to converge next-generation genetic engineering tools (synthetic biology) with generative AI (of the sort used by ChatGPT) in a new “generative biology” industry.
Library material summaryCrisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power
