Mushita, A.

Biopiracy of biodiversity : global exchange as enclosure / Andrew Mushita and Carol B. Thompson. - Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2007. - xiii, 330 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-320) and index.

The ancient future -- Biopiracy, yesterday and tomorrow -- Patenting biodiversity -- Sustaining farmers, sustaining harvests -- Liberalizing markets or trading deals? -- Landscapes for seed -- Neither public nor private: community alternatives -- International laws of the sea/seed -- Choice seed , seed choices -- Come back Africa.

1592215033 (pbk.) 1592215025 (hardcover)

2006027514


Biodiversity--Africa.
Biopiracy--Africa.
Biodiversity conservation--Africa.
Seed exchanges.

QH194 / .M87 2007

577.096