The Parts of Life: Agricultural Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Role of the Third System
Author(s)
Mooney, Pat Roy
Abstract
The globalization of the environment with its myopic focus on sweeping solutions for global warming and greenhouse gases is allowing people and policy-makers to overlook the risk that there may be nothing left in the greenhouse to eat-and that the farmers who have nurtured diversity for millennia are also disappearing. Is the skyward search for holes in the ozone layer leading us to forget the holes in the social fabric around us-and the wholesale takeover of biological resources by industry?
