1. Biodiversity
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
2. Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
3. Canadian Biodiversity Institute
   Resource Type: Website
   
4. The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding 
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
5. Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
6. A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Contains over 8500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environmental ethics, philosophy, and history, resource management, sociology, and policy on the environment.
7. The Earthscan Action Handbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
8. Global Imperative
   Harmonizing Culture and Nature
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1992
   
9. The Great Seed Piracy
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
10. How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
11. Only protect: A photographic celebration of our endangered earth
    New Internationalist May 2005 - #378
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A visual look at the world's Ecosystems and a discussion of the scale and urgency of the environmental crisis.
12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
13. Vandana Shiva On Resisting GMOs: "Saving Seeds Is a Political Act"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Sarah van Gelder interviewed Vandana Shiva, renowned for her activism against GMOs, globalization, and patents on seeds and traditional foods.
14. The Way We Eat
    Why Our Food Choices Matter
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The authors make a case for how people's everyday food choices affect others' lives.
15. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
    A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.

Experts on Biodiversit‚ in the Sources Directory

1. American Museum of Natural History
2. Bees for Development
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
5. Natural History Museum
6. Senckenbergische Naturforschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
7. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
8. World Bank