The ARC Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection brings RNA-based bio-pesticides to agriculture, resulting in reduced chemical inputs, increased crop productivity, green credentials, sustainability, market access and capacity building, all of which will contribute to a more profitable and competitive food and agribusiness sector.
With the aim of underscoring the right policy settings and enabling environments required for RNA-based bio-pesticides to gain traction in the marketplace, our team investigated existing policy and regulatory frameworks.
Associate Professor Pedro Fidelman
Dr Sandya Gunasekara
- Gunasekara, S., Fidelman, P., Fletcher, S. et al. The future of dsRNA-based biopesticides will require global regulatory cohesion. Nat. Plants (2025).
- Gunasekara, Sandya and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). Current state of knowledge and on-going developments regulating RNAi-based products for agriculture in 2024 Annual Meeting - ARC Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection.
- Gunasekara, Sandya and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). The role of regulatory and legal frameworks in enabling RNAi-based biopesticides in 10th Annual Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 8-9 February 2024.
