Breakfast of biodiversity
Subtitle: the political ecology of rain forest destruction
By: John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva.
Contributors: Perfecto, Ivette.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Food First Books; Distributed by Client Distribution Services
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oakland, Calif; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Rain forest conservation.; Rain forest ecology.; Banana trade -- Environmental aspects -- Costa Rica.; Deforestation -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics.; Agricultural ecology -- Tropics.; Forest biodiversity conservation -- Tropics.; Trees.; Tropical Climate.; Conservation of Natural Resources.; Biodiversity.; Politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slicing up the rain forest on your breakfast cereal; title: The rain forest is neither fragile nor stable; title: Farming on rain forest soils; title: The political economy of agriculture in rain forest areas; title: The multiple faces of agriculture in the modern world system; title: The political ecology of logging and related activities; title: Globalization and the new politics; title: Rain forest conservation : the direct or indirect approach?; title: Biodiversity, agriculture, and rain forests; title: Who constructs the rain forest?; title: Past causes, future models, present action.