This book brings together Vandana Shiva's thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the Consequences for Agriculture of the global pre-eminence of western-style Scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible style, she examines the current threats to the planet's Biodiversity and the Environmental and human consequences of its Erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making Money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these Technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improve Natural Species for the good of all and highlights the Ethical and environmental problems posed. In a Policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the Aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralized, homogenous systems of cultivation.