Biopiracy: Plundering Nature & Knowledge - Shiva

Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva of India is one of the Third World's most eloquent voices on the environment - women's rights and sustainable development. She directs the Research Foundation for Science - Technology and Ecology in New Delhi. In this program - she describes the impact that giant agribusiness is having on global food production and the effects intellectual property rights and patents are having on traditional communities. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 1997) Vandana Shiva of India is an internationally-renowned activist. She is the director of the Research Foundation for Science - Technology and Ecology in New Delhi. She is has pioneered research on biodiversity and indigenous ethnoscience. Dr Shiva is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award - also known as the alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of Biopiracy - Stolen Harvest and Water Wars.