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GMO free Agriculture

• Campaign homepage STOP GENE DRIVES by Save Our Seeds

What is a gene Drive?

• What are gene drive organisms?

• Short animated video, produced by SOS explains „What is a CRISPR gene drive“

• Gene Drives Webinar by Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher (EcoNexus) - What are gene drives? How do they work?

Where could Gene Drives be applied in the future?

• Possible future applications of Gene Drive Organisms

• ENSSER, VDW, CSS: Gene Drive Report. Chapter 2: Potential applications and risks

• ETC Group (2019): Forcing the Farm: How Gene Drive Organisms Could Entrench Industrial Agriculture and Threaten Food Sovereignty.

Which risks emerge from Gene Drive Organisms?

• Ecological risks
• Webinar by Mark Wells, EcoNexus: Gene Drives: What problems are they intended to solve and what are the risks?

Gene Drives in Africa

• Video: “ETC Group: A Question of Consent: Exterminator Mosquitoes in Burkina Faso” documents conversations with residents of the areas where Target Malaria is conducting tests, as well as opposition from civil society groups in the region.
  
  
• Video: Gene Drives in Africa: Civil Society Speaks Out (Eng)

Gene Drives & Malaria

• PLOS Medicine: Some Lessons for the Future from the Global Malaria Eradication Programme (1955–1969)

Gene Drive Regulation

• https://www.stop-genedrives.eu/en/regulation-of-gene-drive-organisms-at-eu-level/Policy Recommendations on Gene Drives by Save Our Seeds

• Regulation at EU level

• Resolution of the European Parliament calling for a global gene drive moratorium [paragraph 13]

• Regulation at international level

• CBD/COP/DEC/14/19: DECISION ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY14/19. Synthetic biology

• Lim, L. C. / Lim, L. L. (2019): Key elements in a legal and regulatory framework for gene drive organisms. Third World Network, African Center for Biodiversity, TWN Biosafety Briefing

Gene Drive risk assessment

• Sirinathsinghji, E. (2020): Risk assessment challenges of synthetic gene drive organisms. TWN Biosafety Briefing

Gene Drive Advocacy

• Boëte, C. (2018): GENE DRIVE AND TRUST IN SCIENCE: Lobbying and propaganda around genedrive technologies threaten to erode public trust in science.

• A Call to protect food systems from genetic extermination technology. The global food and agriculture movement says NO to the release of gene drive organisms

• Open letter by 78 civil society organizations in Europe calling on EU Commission to implement a global gene drive moratorium
  
  
• „A Call to protect food systems from genetic extermination technology. The global food and agriculture movement says NO to the release of gene drive organisms“

• Gene Drive Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research. Statement: UN Convention on Biological Diversity COP

• Gene Drive Outreach Network for Gene Drive Research: Open letter prior to COP 14

• Illegitimate exertion of influence at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Gene Drive Files