title: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
author:  Vandana Shiva 
description: <div>A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.</div>
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  BIOPIRACY
  
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  BIOPIRACY
  
  The Plunder of Nature
  
  and Knowledge
  
  VANDANA SHIVA
  
  Berkeley, California
  
  Copyright © 1999, 2016 by Vandana Shiva. All rights reserved. No portion of
  this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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  North Atlantic Books
  
  Berkeley, California
  
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  Cover design by Jasmine Hromjak
  
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  Printed in the United States of America
  
  Previously published in 1999 by South End Press.
  
  _Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge_ is sponsored and published by
  the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic
  Books), an educational nonprofit base