Library category: High-tech in agrifood systems

“Black Box” Biotechnology

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.

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Library material author(s): ETC group, African Centre for Biodiversity, Third World Network
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Food barons

Library material summaryCrisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power

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Library material author(s): ETC group
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