The continuing devastation of the world's tropical rain forest affects us all--spurring climate change, decimating
biodiversity, and wrecking our environment's resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do
whatever it takes to save the forest that is left.
But halting rain forest destruction means understanding what is driving it.
In Breakfast of Biodiversity, John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto insightfully describe the ways in which such
disparate factors as the international banking system, modern agricultural techniques, rain forest ecology, and
the struggles of the poor interact to bring down the forest. They weave an alternative vision in which democracy,
sustainable agriculture, and land security for the poor are at the center of the movement to save the tropical
environment.
This new, fully updated edition of Breakfast of Biodiversity discusses important new developments in our understanding
of rain forest biology and assesses the impacts of a decade of "free" trade on the rain forest and on
those who live in and around it.