Biodiversity Conservation : Whose Resource? Whose Knowledge/edited by Vandana Shiva. 1994, xx, 315 p., $38.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Overview: 1. Biodiversity conservation, people's knowledge and intellectual property rights/Vandana Shiva. II. Who defends biodiversity: 1. Conserving the forest: conserving a value system/Sathis Chandran Nair. 2. How can we conserve biodiversity?/A.N. Yellappa Reddy. 3. Preserving agricultural biodiversity the natural way/L. Narayana Reddy. 4. Conserving people's agricultural knowledge/K. Vijayalakshmi. 5. Conserving agricultural biodiversity and people's knowledge/Pandurang Hegde. 6. Traditional knowledge of rural and tribal people--MSSRF approach/S. John Joseph. 7. "Navdanya"--a grassroot movement for conservation of biodiversity: the lifeline of women and rural poor/Vanaja Ramprasad. 8. Biodiversity in agriculture: a micro context/P.V. Satheesh. 9. Medicinal plants and biodiversity conservation/Darshan Shankar. 10. People's knowledge in health care/A.V. Balasubramanian. 11. New IPR regimes and peoples's control over indigenous resources for health care/M.N. Mehrotra. 12. Chilika Lake--environment and aquaculture/Banka Behary Das. 13. Aquaculture a boon or a bane: Andhra Pradesh experience/Jacob D. Raj and Daisy Dharma Raj. 14. The conservation of fishing communities and fisheries resources in India/Thomas Kocherry. 15. Potential for marine aquaculture: resources and environmental costs/K.V. Ramana Murthi. III. GATT and IPRs: 1. Impact of new patent regime on pharmaceuticals, pesticides and seeds/B.K. Keayla. 2. The biodiversity convention, IPRs and the interests of the south/Tewolde Berhan G. Egziabher. IV. Biodiversity convention: 1. The convention on biological diversity: follow up action/Sujata Arora. 2. Opportunities for equity between and within nations/Ashish Kothari. 3. Intellectual property rights for lifeforms: what should guide India's position/Suman Sahai. V. Bioprospecting: 1. Bio-prospecting and indigenous knowledge systems/Darrel Posey, Darshan Shankar, S.P. Shukla and Chattrapati Singh. VI. Biosafety: 1. Can the U.S. lead the way on biosafety policy?/S. Shantharam. Appendices: 1. Convention on biological diversity. 2. The benefits of biodiversity.