The Importance of this book is that the author Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Shiva is a recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). As an activist and scholar in the fields of biology and environment, and through wide participation in many debates over the past two decades, she reveals the fact that what industrial economy calls a 'growth', based, in fact, on robbing nature and people. In Stolen Harvest, Vandana Shiva charts the impacts of globalization and corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered seeds, patents o life, mad cows and sacred cows, and the debate on shrimp farming, this is an impassioned and inspiring book that will shape the debate about genetic engineering and commercial agriculture for years to come.