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Vitality and Self-interest 110 Notes 123 Bibliography 157 Index 171

Spanning locations ranging from the rainforests of Costa Rica and Nicaragua to the spice routes of Kerala

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a conversation with writer Olivia Laing photographed by Kuba Ryniewciz

Reclaiming the Commons - Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth Psychogegrafie we’ve seen the emergence ofReclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants,