Origin : the corporate war on nature and culture / Vandana Shiva, Anugrah Bhatt, Prerna Anilkumar, Neha Raj Singh ; with the Navdanya Team ; foreword, Suresh Prabhu.
"Copyright: Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology"--Title page verso. "This is the updated and revised edition of The enclosures and recovery of the commons, published in 1997."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The duty to protect biodiversity: the convention on biodiversity and the biodiversity act -- TRIPs, biodiversity and section 3 (j) of India's patent act -- Agrobiodiversity, seeds and India's plant variety protection and farmers' rights act -- Biopiracy: the patenting of indigenous knowledge and biodiversity -- The western corporate bias in knowledge and property rights which facilitates biopiracy -- Corporate war on nature and cuture: the enclosure and recovery of the commons -- Vasudhaiva kutumbukam: from corpoarte anthropocentrism to earth as family.
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