- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (145 pages).)
- Summary
- For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition. In India alone, the ingenuity of farmers has produced over 200,000 varieties of rice, many of which now line store shelves around the world. This productive tradition, however, is under attack as globalized, corporate regimes increasingly exploit intellectual property laws to annex these sustaining seeds and remove them from the public sphere. In Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Shiva explores the devastating effects of commercial agriculture and genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who grow it, and the soil that sustains it. This prescient critique and call to action covers some of the most pressing topics of this ongoing dialogue, from the destruction of local food cultures and the privatization of plant life, to unsustainable industrial fish farming and safety concerns about corporately engineered foods. The preeminent agricultural activist and scientist of a generation, Shiva implores the farmers and consumers of the world to make a united stand against the genetically modified crops and untenable farming practices that endanger the seeds and plants that give us life.
- Series Statement
- Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism
- Uniform Title
- Stolen Harvest (Online)
- Culture of the land.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Stolen Harvest (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Cambridge, MA : South End Press, [2000].
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The hijacking of the global food supply -- Soy imperialism and the destruction of local food cultures -- The stolen harvest under the sea -- Mad cows and sacred cows -- The stolen harvest of seed -- Genetic engineering and food security -- Reclaiming food democracy -- Afterword.
- OCLC
- ssj0001619467
- Author
Shiva, Vandana.
- Title
Stolen Harvest [electronic resource] : The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply / by Vandana Shiva.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism
Culture of the land.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9780813166551