Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction

by John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto, Vandana Shiva (Foreword by)

Overview

The continuing devastation of the world’s tropical rain forest affects us all—spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment’s resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do whatever it takes to save the forest that is left.

But halting rain forest destruction means understanding what is driving it.

In Breakfast of Biodiversity, John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto insightfully describe the ways in which such disparate factors as the international banking system, modern agricultural techniques, rain forest ecology, and the struggles of the poor interact to bring down the forest. They weave an alternative vision in which democracy, sustainable agriculture, and land security for the poor are at the center of the movement to save the tropical environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935028454
Publisher:	Food First / Institute For Food & Development Policy
Publication date:	03/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	207
File size:	3 MB