Anne Peterman & Heather Lee, Global Justice Ecology Project - Biotechnology corporations and the pulp and paper industry are advancing a new front in industrial forestry: gene-edited trees. After decades of public opposition and international decisions like the 2008 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) call for the Precautionary Approach regarding genetically modified (GM) trees, industry and researchers are now attempting to sidestep regulation—and public scrutiny—by redefining what counts as “genetic modification.”

UN experts: Corporate agribusiness imperils biodiversity, rights and food sovereignty

Third World Network - The UN Working Group on Peasants and Rural Workers and Special Rapporteur on the Right to food Michael Fakhri warn that corporate concentration in food systems deepens inequality, marginalises small-scale producers, and drives ecological collapse. Fakhri’s report Corporate Power and Human Rights in Food Systems shows how a few transnational agribusinesses dominate agricultural production, input markets and supply chains—undermining peasants’ rights, food sovereignty, and the right to food. The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment identified the same issue of concentration of wealth as an underlying cause of biodiversity loss, creating systemic barriers to transformative change by reinforcing profit-driven models that exploit people and nature.