National agricultural policies and budgets in Southern Africa largely support conventional, industrial farming practices. There is a need for governments to prioritise food sovereignty and agroecology in policy and financial investments and develop national agroecology strategies. […]
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– It is not productive or meaningful to genetically modify wild organisms solely based on the assumption of potential benefits and with uncertainty about possible harm. […] CBD Parties have not explicitly continued the process for broad and regular horizon-scanning, monitoring and assessment of the most recent technological developments in synthetic biology, but assessment will continue, albeit in a different form. […] Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety welcome voluntary guidance materials for assessing the risks of LMOs containing engineered gene drives, despite concerns that the materials are not precautionary enough and questions over potential conflicts of interest. […] TWN Briefing Note on synthetic biology for the UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 calls for equity and precaution […] This article dispels four fictions that proponents of the deregulation of new GMOs use to forward their argument, and stresses that doing so will not increase benefit or safety. […] Study describes ‘open air’ genome editing (and gene silencing applications) as emerging environmental contaminants with potential important impacts on non-target organisms. […] Drawing from data from 11 countries, this study found that implementing livestock diversification or soil conservation tended to create beneficial social and environmental outcomes, especially for biodiversity. […] Mexico’s final rebuttal in its trade dispute with the US demonstrates that its GM corn restrictions are legal, do not significantly impact US corn exporters, and are fully justified by the evidence of risks to human health and the environment. […] This briefing addresses ‘generative’ artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which are now being applied to generate novel digital sequences for GMOs and proteins. […] |
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