- Biodiversity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
- Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
- Breakfast of Biodiversity
The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction
Resource Type: Book
- Canadian Museum of Nature
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Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues.
- Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Martin Empson reviews an important book (DEAD ZONE: Where the Wild Things Were
by Philip Lymber,Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) for activists, a frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment, and particularly biodiversity.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The Great Seed Piracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
- How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.
- The Hutchinson Pocket Factfinder
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
This sourcebook provides topical information and core reference material on over 40 subjects.
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
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Resource Type: Organization
- Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
- The Monkey's Voyage
How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes a radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being, arguing that different species were not simply constrained by continental fate but were rather the makers of their own geographic destiny.
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
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Resource Type: Organization
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
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Resource Type: Organization
- Organic Trade Association
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Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Ryan Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
- Senckenbergische Naturforschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
- WWF -- Canada
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Resource Type: Organization
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