World Wildlife Fund

Publications include 12 books and some 250 articles (most are listed below) and reports appearing in at least 5
languages. Publications cover a broad range of issues from commodity production to NTFP marketing, from
investment and development practices and possibilities to genocide and refugees, from global trade and state
policies to the rights of indigenous peoples. Publications and reports range from academic and scientific works, to
publications of multi-lateral agencies, NGOs, activist organizations, and the popular press.
1999 with A. Anderson. Greening the Amazon—Communities and Corporations in Search of Sustainable
Business Practices. Ford Foundation and WWF. (in draft).
1999 Some Practical Considerations for ERBC [Eco-Region Based Conservation], Socio-Economic
Reconnaissance. WWF.
1999 with L.M. Talbot and W. Jobin. 5th Report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
on the AES/Nile Power Ltd. Bujagali Hydro Electric Power Project. February 9.
1999 with L.M. Talbot and W. Jobin. 4th Report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
on the AES/Nile Power Ltd. Bujagali Hydro Electric Power Project. February 9.
1999 The African Fishing Company and the Mafia Island Marine Park. Potential Impacts of the AFC’s
Proposed Hatchery on Bwejuu Island and the Pond and Processing Operations in the Rufiji Delta on the
Mafia Island Marine Park. World Wildlife Fund. January 29.
1999 Identifying, Analyzing and Promoting Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture. A 3-Year Program to Support
Critical Activities. WWF. January 26. 35 pages.
1999 with R. Naylor, et al. Shrimp and Salmon Farming—Response. Science 283 (29 January):639-640.
1999 with J. Primavera, et al. Shrimp and Salmon Farming—Response. Science 283 (29 January):640-641.
1998 Environmental Investments—More from the Heart than from the Head. Greening the Financial Sector.
Berlin: Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft e.V. Pp. 20-21.
1998 Shrimp Aquaculture—Where Are We Headed? Intercoast Network Winter 1998:16-17. University of
Rhode Island.
1998 with L.M. Talbot and W. Jobin. 3rd Report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
on the AES/Nile Power Ltd. Bujagali Hydro Electric Power Project. December 21.
1998 Oil/Gas, Timber and Seafood Industries. The Global Context for Analyzing Corporate Threats to the
Global 200. WWF. 16 October. 46 pages.
1998 Strategies for Influencing Oil, Timber, and Seafood Companies Whose Activities Threaten the Global 200.
WWF. November 5. 14 pages.
1998 Possible Gifts to the Earth. A Report Submitted to the Global 200 Initiative. WWF. Washington DC. 6
pages.
1998 with L.M. Talbot and W. Jobin. 2nd Report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
on the AES/Nile Power Ltd. Bujagali Hydro Electric Power Project. August 22.
1998 with L.M. Talbot and W. Jobin. 1st Report of the International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
on the AES/Nile Power Ltd. Bujagali Hydro Electric Power Project.
1998 with R. Naylor, et al. Nature’s Subsidies to Shrimp and Salmon Farming. Science 282 (30 October):883-
884. The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1998 with C. Boyd. Shrimp Aquaculture and the Environment. Scientific American 278 (6) June:42-48. New
York: Scientific American, Inc.
1998 Comments from an Environmental Advocate. Scientific American 278 (6) June:49. Reprinted in Special
Quarterly Report, “The Oceans.” Scientific American 9 (3) Fall:67. New York: Scientific American, Inc.
1998 with J. Tobey and P. Vergne. The Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Shrimp Farming in
Latin America. Coastal Management Report 2202. USAID and Coastal Resources Center, University of
Rhode Island. June.
1998 with J. Tobey and P. Vergne. Impactos Economicos, Ambientales y Sociales del Cultivo de Camaron en
Latinoamerica. Coastal Management Report 2202. USAID and Coastal Resources Center, University of
Rhode Island. June
1998 The Collection of Non-Timber Forest Products from US Public Lands. Testimony Delivered to the United
States Senate Sub-Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. US Congressional Record. February 25.
1998 PRONATUS—Manufacturing Personal Care Products and Dietary Supplements in Manaus, Amazonas.
Draft.
1998 ASSEMA and the Production of Babassu Oil. Draft.
1998 The Kayapo and the Body Shop—A Trade with Aid Partnership. Draft.
1998 with P. Amaral. The Cost of Sustainably Harvesting Tropical Timber from Natural Forests: The Case of
Precious Woods/Mil Madeireiras, Itacoatiara, S.A. Draft.
1997 Business and Biodiversity—Rainforest Marketing and Beyond. N.C. Vance and J. Thomas, Eds. Special
Forest Products—Biodiversity Meets the Marketplace. Washington DC: The Forest Service, US
Department of Agriculture. Pp. 122-145.
1997 Toward Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture. World Aquaculture September:32-37.
1997 Project Concept—The Rapid Response Force. World Wildlife Fund. Washington DC. 11 pages. April 4.
1997 The Fund for Sustainable Enterprises, 1997-2007. Business Plan. Calvert Ventures, Appropriate
Technology, World Wildlife Fund. March 7. 82 pages.
1997 Market Opportunities for Addressing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Wild-Captured and Pond-
Produced Shrimp. Intercoast Network Special Edition #1. P. 18.
1996 Generating Income and Conserving Resources—20 Lessons from the Field. Washington DC: World
Wildlife Fund. 76 pages.
1996 Market Potentials for Redressing the Environmental Impact of Wild Captured and Pond Produced
Shrimp. Washington DC: World Wildlife Fund. November 21. 221 pages.
1996 Brazil Nuts—The Use of a Keystone Species in Conservation. C.H. Freese, Ed. Harvesting Wild Species.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 246-282.
1996 The Impact of Palm Heart Harvesting in the Amazon Estuary. C.H. Freese, Ed. Harvesting Wild Species.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 283-314.
1996 The Diversity Debate—Counterpoint. The Utne Reader. 73:36-37.
1996 Preface. K. Redford and J.A. Mansour, Eds. Traditional People and Biodiversity Conservation in Large
Tropical Landscapes. Arlington, VA: America Verde Publications and the Nature Conservancy.
1995 States, Nations and Resources: An Interdependent Relationship? The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
19(1):11-20. Medford, MA: Tufts University/The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
1995 SVN Companies and Commodities. Global Village News. Social Venture Network Newsletter.
8(4)1995:4.
1995 Commodities Production, Trade and Consumption—A Conservation Approach. A World Wildlife Fund
Initiative. Washington DC. January 23.
1995 ESOPs and Plantation Agriculture. Thought piece for The Multi-Lateral Investment Fund. Inter-American
Development Bank. June 11.
1995 A Business Plan for Palm Heart Harvest, Processing and Distribution, 1995-2000. World Wildlife Fund. 62
pages.
1995 An Overview on Harvesting, Forest Processing, and Transport of Non-Wood Forest Products. Report of
the International Expert Consultation on Non-Wood Forest Products. Non-Wood Forest Products #3.
Rome: FAO. Pp. 235-249.
1995 Nationalism in the Nineties. Interfaith Center.
1994 Alternative Trade—Where to From Here? World Paper.
1995 Comments on UN Indigenous People Policy for the National Security Council and the While House.
1994 with S. Laird. Benefit Sharing and the Convention on Biological Diversity. World Wildlife Fund. Draft
position statement. October 15.
1994 Drugs in Bolivia. Background paper prepared for the World Bank prior to meeting with GoB and GoUSA.
1994 Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century. B.R. Johnston, Ed. Who Pays the
Price? The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. A publication of the Society for Applied
Anthropology and Island Press, Washington DC. Pp. 19-30.
1993 Financial Transfer Options for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Working in Brazil. Prepared for
ECOTECH and US AID-Brazil. 23 pages.
1993 Marketing and Human Rights—The Lessons from Cultural Survival Enterprises, the Marketing Program of
Cultural Survival. Cultural Survival. 8 pages.
1993 with Charles Clements. Income Generating Forests and Conservation in Latin America. In Press.
1993 with Charles Clements. Selected Species and Strategies to Enhance Income Generation from
Amazonian Forests. Rome: FAO.
1993 Indigenous Peoples. In Encyclopedia of the Environment. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
1993 Looking Back to Go Forward: Predicting and Preventing Human Rights Violations. In Marc Miller, Ed.
The State of the Peoples. Boston: Beacon Press.
1993 Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century. In B.R. Johnson, Ed. Who Pays
the Price? Examining the Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis. A Society for Applied
Anthropology Report on Human Rights and the Environment.
1993 What's a Nation? Latest Thinking. Talking About People. Mayfield Publishing Company. Mountain
View, California.
1992 Frequently Asked Questions about Cultural Survival Enterprises, The Marketing Program of Cultural
Survival. Cultural Survival.
1992 "Eco-Enterprises." World: The Magazine for Decision Makers. No. 2 p.42-43.
1992 "Report on Funding and Investment Opportunities for Income Generating Activities that Could
Complement Strategies to Halt Environmental Degradation in the Greater Amazon Basin."
For The Biodiversity Support Program, World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and WRI/Center
for International Development and Environment.
1992 Some General Principles and Strategies for Developing Markets in North America and Europe for Nontimber
Forest Products. Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products. Island Press. Covelo,
California.
1992 Buying in the forests: A new Program to Market Sustainably Collected Tropical Forest Products Protects
Forests and Forest Residents. Conservation of Neotropical Forests. Columbia University Press. New
York.
1992 Use Forests Sustainably or Lose Them. Beyond the Earth Summit. Common Knowledge Press. Bolinas,
California.
1992 Resource Wars: Nation and State Conflicts of the Twentieth Century. Society for Applied Anthropology
Committee on Human Rights and the Environment report.
1992 Resource Wars: Nation-State Conflicts of the 20th Century. Growing Our Future: Food Security
and the Environment. Food for the Hungry International. Kumarian Press. West Hartford, CT. May
1992.
1992 Sustainable Marketing and Development of Rainforest Products: The Path Taken by the Body Shop;
Building and Supplying Markets for Non-wood Tropical Forest Products. The Rainforest Harvest:
Sustainable Strategies for Saving the Tropical Forests? Proceedings of an International Conference
held at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Friends of the Earth. February 1992. Pp. 114-
116; 250-255.
1992 Ethnic Conflict, Flight and the Politics of Survival. Transcription of Worldwide Refugee Movements:
Development Politics and Human Rights. Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research in
conjunction with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the New School for Social Research. New York.
1992. Pp. 14-15.
1992 Seeds of Change conference presentation published in the 1992 Seeds of Change catalogue.
1991 Unique Products, Unique Sales Strategy. Transcription of In Business Magazine conference on
Environmental Engineering. Philadelphia. October 11.
1991 Editorial; Introductions to each of five sections. A Decade of Cultural Survival Quarterly. CSQ Fall 91.
1991 World Bank Policy on Tribal People: Application to Africa. AFTEN Technical Notes. July 1991.
1991 Cultural Survival and the Human Rights of Indigenous People. International Human Rights and
Indigenous Peoples.
1991 Editorial. Brave New World Order. CSQ (15):2.
1991 Genes, Genius, and Genocide. Whole Earth Review. Winter 1991 (#73). Pp. 96-97.
1991 Genes, Genius, and Generations. World Development. UNDP. March 1991. Pp. 31-32.
1991 The Knowledge of Nations. Ceres: The FAO Review. January/February 1991.
1991 Cultural Survival and Conservation: Lessons from the Last Twenty Years. Biodiversity: Culture,
Conservation, and Ecodevelopment. Westview Press, Inc. Pp. 248-273.
1991 The Political Economy of the Pichis-Palcazu Project. Tebiwa Journal of the Idaho Museum of Natural
History. December 1990. Volume 24 Supplement.
1990 Editorial. Genes, Genius, and Genocide. CSQ(14):4.
1990 Third world war heats up as cold war thaws. Utne Reader. November/December. P93.
1990 What's a Nation? Latest Thinking section, Mother Jones, October 1990. (Reprinted as "People, not states,
make a nation." Utne Reader July/August 1992.)
1990 Indigenous Peoples: The Miner's Canary for the Twentieth Century. In Suzanne Head and Robert
Heinzman, eds., Lessons of the Rainforest. Sierra Club Books.
1990 Editorial. Can Leopards Change Their Spots? CSQ 14(3):1.
1990 Editorial. The Future of Nations in the Nineties. CSQ 14(1):1.
1990 Guest column. A Rain Forest Emporium. Garden 14(1):2-7.
1990 Genocide in the Age of Enlightenment. Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide, Issue 24, January. P. 10.
1989 Radios in the Rain Forest. Technology Review, October 1989, 92(7):52-57.
1989 Epilogue: The Ethnic Future of Nations. Third World Quarterly, October 1989:223-233.
1989 Editorial. The Year in Review. CSQ 13(4):1.
1989 The Nucleus for Indigenous Rights: Promoting Equality in Brazil. CSQ 13(4):79.
1989 Guest column. How Reserves Can Work. Garden 13(5):2-4.
1989 Editorial. Iraq Crushes the Kurds. CSQ 13(2):1.
1989 Famine Returns to Ethiopia. International Report. March (7):1.
1989 Indigenous Peoples in the Modern World. Development Forum, January-February:12-13.
1989 Ethiopian Famine and the Relief Agencies. In B. Nichols and G. Loescher, eds., The Moral Nation:
Humanitarianism and US Foreign Policy Today. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Pp.
232-277.
1989 Editorial. Defending the Forests. CSQ 13(1):1.
1988 Indigenous Peoples in the Modern World. Anti-Slavery Reporter, Series VII, 13(5):80-88.
1988 Food as a Weapon: State-Produced Death by Starvation in Ethiopia and Sudan. The ISG (Institute for the
Study of Genocide) Newsletter 1(2):8-10.
1988 Editorial. Genocide in the Age of Enlightenment. CSQ 12(3):1. Reprinted in Utne Reader, Nov./Dec.
1989.
1988 Editorial. Indians in Brazil. CSQ 12(2):1.
1988 Famine Returns to Ethiopia. CSQ 12(2):48-50. Reprinted in International Report 7(1).
1988 Calha Norte and the Limits of Democracy in Brazil. Development Anthropology Network (IDA). Fall.
p. 3-6.
1988 Famine II: The Sequel. Ethiopia's Man-Made Tragedy. World Paper, August 1988. Pp. 8-10.
1988 Famine's Return--Ethiopian Regime Turns Hunger into a Weapon Against its Foes. San Diego Union,
Sunday Opinion Editorial. May 8.
1988 Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Rainforests: Models of Land Use and Management from Latin
America. Cultural Survival Report 27. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1988 The Spoils of Famine: Ethiopian Famine Policy and Peasant Agriculture. With Sandra Steingraber and
Peter Niggli. Cultural Survival Report 25. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1988 Anthropologists and Human Rights: Activists by Default? In T. Downing and G. Kushner, eds. Human
Rights and Anthropology. Cultural Survival Report 24. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1987 Editorial. The News That's Not Fit to Print. CSQ 11(4):1.
1987 Armed Struggle and Indigenous People. CSQ 11(4):2-4.
1987 Film Review. Hopi Songs of the Fourth World. CSQ 11(3):72.
1987 Editorial. Aids in Africa. CSQ 11(2):1.
1987 Editorial. Grassroots Development--More Sunshine and Rain, Less Seed. CSQ 11(1):2.
1987 Famine and Power in Ethiopia. San Diego Union, Sunday Opinion Editorial. February 8.
1987 The Politics of a Famine Report: Rejoinder to Richard Pankhurst. RAIN.
1986 Ethiopian Refugees in Somalia. Africa Confidential, May 22.
1986 Ethiopian Refugees Flee Collectivization. CSQ 10(2):60-65. Reprinted in Pogrom.
1986 Editorial. Help that Hurts--Western Assistance in Ethiopia. CSQ 10(2):10.
1986 The cultural causes behind Africa's woes. Utne Reader. April/May 1986. Pp. 98-103.
1986 Resettlement in Ethiopia. Prepared Statement delivered before the full Foreign Relations Committee of the
U.S. Senate. March 6.
1986 Taking Destiny in Hand. In "Indigenous Peoples Speak Out." Maryknoll, March 1986:3-9.
1985 Politics and the Ethiopian Famine 1984-1985. With Bonnie K. Holcomb. Cultural Survival Report 20.
Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1985 Editorial. Time for Change in South Africa. CSQ 9(3):1.
1985 Nation, Tribe and Ethnic Group in Africa. CSQ 9(3):2-4. Reprinted in Utne Reader March 1986.
1985 The Needs of Refugees in Eastern Sudan if They Are to Return to Tigray to Plant Their Crops. Preliminary
Report distributed to PVOs and governments providing humanitarian assistance in Sudan and Ethiopia.
March. 26 pages.
1985 Editorial. Ethnic Warriors. CSQ 9(2):1. Reprinted in Extracta 6:3-4. Lima, Peru: CIPA. December
1987.
1985 The Politics of Famine in Ethiopia. With Bonnie K. Holcomb. CSQ 9(2):36-37. Reprinted in Extracta
6:22-24. Lima, Peru: CIPA. December 1987.
1985 Editorial. The Final Word (Foreign lobbying in the US). CSQ 9(1):1.
1985 National Parks and Native Peoples. CSQ 9(1):2-5.
1984 Ethnicity: Powerful Factor in Refugee Flows. World Refugee Survey-1984. Washington, DC.: U.S.
Committee for Refugees. Pp. 10-16.
1984 Editorial. Help That May Hurt. The Boston Globe, December 17.
1984 Book review of Genocide and Human Rights--A Global Anthology, by Jack Nusan Porter, ed., 1982. In
The Armenian Review.
1984 Editorial. Famine in Ethiopia. CSQ 8(4):1. Reprinted in Utne Reader 3(1):15-16.
1984 Organizing to Survive. CSQ 8(4):2-5.
1984 Editorial. The US and Genocide. CSQ 8(3):1. Reprinted in Extracta 5:4. Lima, Peru: CIPA. March
1986.
1984 Hunters and Gatherers: The Search for Survival. CSQ 8(3):2-4.
1984 Yahgan and Ona--The Road to Extinction. CSQ 8(3):5-8. Reprinted in Extracta 5:46-49. Lima, Peru:
CIPA. March 1986.
1984 Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico--An Introduction. CSQ 8(3):46-49.
1984 The Campeche Camps. CSQ 8(3):53-54.
1984 West Papuans Flee Violence. CSQ 8(3):61-63.
1984 The Eviction of Banyaruanda: The Story Behind the Refugee Crisis in Southwest Uganda. Cultural
Survival Report 14. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1984 Foreword to Verdict: Session on the Genocide of the Armenians, Permanent Peoples Tribunal, April 13-
16. Zoryan Institute.
1984 Editorial. All the News... CSQ 8(2):1.
1984 Women in a Changing World--Introduction. CSQ 8(2):2-5.
1984 Editorial. Generating Interest. CSQ 8(1):1.
1983 The Search for Work--Introduction. CSQ 7(4):4-9.
1983 Editorial. Funding Tribal People. CSQ 7(3):3. Reprinted in Extracta, vol. 1. Lima, Peru: CIPA. April
1984.
1983 Keeping the Faith?--Introduction. CSQ 7(3):4. Reprinted in Extracta, vol. 1. Lima. Peru: CIPA. April
1984.
1983 An Analysis of Iraq's Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (CERD/C/76Add.5,11 January 1983). The International League for Human Rights, July 7.
1983 Editorial. The Final Weapon [Food assistance in Ethiopia and Guatemala]. CSQ 7(2):3.
1983 Introduction--The Electronic Era. CSQ 7(2):4-11. Reprinted as "Global Communications are a Western
Soliloquy," in Utne Reader 5(Summer 1984):90-95.
1983 Ethnicity and Politics: Background to a Refugee Crisis in Southwest Uganda. Report on a two-week trip to
Uganda and Rwanda in January 1983. February 25.
1983 Introduction--Death and Disorder in Guatemala. CSQ 7(1):3.
1982 Editorial. Development and Destruction. CSQ 6(4):2. Reprinted in Extracta 3:3. Lima, Peru: CIPA.
March 1985.
1982 Introduction--Ethnic Art: Works in Progress? CSQ 6(4):3-6.
1982 Ethnicity: The Hidden Cause of the World's Refugees." CSQ 6(4).
1982 Refugees in U.S. Fear Returning to Ethiopia. Detroit Free Press. July 6.
1982 Refugees--The Breakdown of Ethnic Pluralism. Paper presented at American Ethnological Society
Meetings. April 8.
1982 Deforestation: The Human Costs. CSQ 6(2):3-7. Reprinted in Extracta 1:4-10. Lima, Peru: CIPA. 1983.
1982 U.S. Should Let Ethiopian Refugees Stay. Op-Ed piece. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 30.
1982 Don't Deport Ethiopians. Op-Ed piece. The New York Times. April 20.
1982 Third World Debt and Development on Indigenous Lands. In Sally Swenson, ed. Native Resource
Control and the Multinational Corporate Challenge. Boston: ARC. Reprinted as "Die Verschuldung
der Dritten Welt und die Entwicklung auf Eingeborenen-Land." In F. Maderspacher and P.E. Stuben, eds.
Bodenschatze contra Menschenrechte, 1984.
1982 Poisons and Peripheral People, Part III: Industrial and Mining Hazards in the Third World. CSQ 6(1):3-10.
1982 Nuclear Testing and Ethnic Groups. CSQ 6(1):10-11.
1982 Warfare Against Tribal People. CSQ 6(1):11.
1982 The Akawaio. CSQ 6(1):27.
1982 Reserves for the Nambiquara. CSQ 6(1):28-29.
1981 The Polonoroeste Project. In In the Path of Polonoroeste: Endangered Peoples of Western Brazil.
Cultural Survival Occasional Paper 6. Pp. 9-22.
1981 Integrated Rural Development: The Case of Garanhuns, Brazil. Paper prepared for the Harvard Institute
for International Development teaching seminar in Caracus, Venezuela. January 1982.
1981 Poisons and Peripheral People: Medicinal Drugs in the Third World. Cultural Survival Newsletter (CSN)
5(4):3-8,11-12.
1981 Letter to the Editor. The Other Refugees. The New York Times. October 14.
1981 Poisons and Peripheral People: Hazardous Substances in the Third World--Part I: Pesticides. CSN 5(3): 1-
8.
1981 Railroading the Compensation Issue. CSN 5(3):15.
1981 Oromo Continue to Flee Violence. CSN 5(3):17-18.
1981 Ethnicity and Refugees in Africa. CSN 5(2):1-3. Also, a chart: Refugees in Africa--1970 and 1981.
CSN 5(2):4-5.
1981 Oil Pipeline for Panama--And for the Guaymi? CSN 5(2):14.
1981 Data Collection Methods for the Aroa Valley, Venezuela. Paper prepared for the HIID Venezuela Project.
1981 The Situation of Native Americans in Venezuela. Survey paper prepared for the Inter-American
Foundation.
1980 Polonoroeste, the BR-364 Highway, and Indians in Brazil. CSN 4(4):1-6.
1980 Tribal Payments for Energy Supplies: The Upper Mazaruni Dam (with Bill Henningsgaard) and the Chico
River Dams. CSN 4(3):1-5.
1980 Aboriginal Land Problems. CSN 4(3):5-6.
1980 Agriculture and Social Organization in Brazil's Agreste, 1845-1977. In T.K. Hopkins and I. Wallerstein,
eds. Processes of the World System, Vol. III. Political Economy of the World System Annuals. Sage
Publications: Beverly Hills. Pp. 148-157.
1979 The Articulation of Non-Capitalist Agricultural Production Systems with Capitalist Exchange
Systems: The Case of Garanhuns, Brazil 1845-1977. Cornell University Latin American Studies
Program Dissertation Series, #84, January 1979. Cornell University: Ithaca, New York.
1973 Agrarian Change in the Agreste of Pernambuco. B.A. Thesis. Harvard College, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Media Work
Research and analyses on several distinct topics and efforts to create rainforest marketing and generate consumer
interest in rainforest products have been the subject of more than 1,000 articles both in the popular national and
international press and business and academic publications. Additional media coverage includes hundreds of
appearances on television and radio. Messages on rainforest products alone have reached more than 100 million
consumers. Some of the media highlights are listed below.
1998 Articles on shrimp and aquaculture in The Economist, The New Scientist, The New York Times. Film on
shrimp aquaculture for Big Bang Productions/PBS. Rainforest marketing in Inc.
1997 First Circle Films for the BBC revisiting Politics and the Ethiopian Famine after 10 years. The Economist.
1995 Newsweek, Wall Street Journal,
1994 Green Market Alert, National Public Radio on intellectual property rights, Earth Minute, Natural Foods
Merchandiser, Prime Time Live, Washington Post on responsible holiday gifts and sourcing.
1993 Newsweek on non-profit organizations, Vermont Public Radio, “E” Magazine, Newsweek, Earth Island
Journal on Cultural Survival and rainforest harvest; Washington Post on socially responsible businesses;
USA Today on responsible holiday gifts and sourcing; Christian Broadcasting Network on Summer
Institute of Linguistics and Missionaries.
1992 Television Interviews: National Geographic half hour program on the survival of indigenous peoples.
TBS (February 25); "Quirks and Quarks", CBC TV. Chicago (February 9); "One Norway Street", Monitor
Television (February 6); USIA TV four-part series on green marketing, intellectual property rights, and
Cultural Survival to be aired in 100 countries; WGBH TV hour-long documentary on Cultural Survival
Enterprises.
1992 Interviews for articles: Panther Dream Press Conference. Chicago Tribune. "Special Sections."
Longevity Magazine. "Forest Conservation Helps Amazon Peoples." Front Lines, US AID (June). "
"Local organizations voice their expectations." Brazilian Monthly (June). "Das Geschaeft mit der
Rettung." Geo (May 25). "Cultural Survival Aims to Cross Over." Green Market Alert (May). "Using,
Not Abusing, the Rain Forest." Business International (April 27). "Marked for Death." The Brazilian
Monthly (April, Year 1 #6). "Cultural Survival: Helping the marketplace." Food People (April; Vol.
12 No. 2). "Goods from the Woods." Journal of Forestry (April). "Do Gooders Go Nuts Over Amazon."
Los Angeles Times (March 17). "Some Firms Are Born to Alleviate the Ills of the World." The Wall
Street Journal (March 17); "Nuts To You." Business International (March). "The rain forest's
Cultural Survival." Living/Arts section, The Boston Globe (February 5).
1992 Radio interviews: Quirks and Quarks program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (February);
Minnesota Public Radio (January 31); WHRB (January 24).
1991 Television interviews: Monitor News (December 27); Technical advisor and panelist for An Electronic
Field Trip to: Tropical Rainforests, Museum of Science, Boston. The Mass LearnPike, MA Corporation
for Educational Telecommunications (January 24).
1991 Interviews for articles: "Heroes of the Rain Forest." The Boston Globe Magazine (March 1991). "Battle
Rages Over Right To Patent Living Things." The Journal of Commerce (December 16). "New cereal
seen as aid to world's environment." The Enterprise (September 26); "Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge:
Lending a Hand." Time (September 23); "Rain Forest Chic: An Idea Uniting Economy, Ecology." Los
Angeles Times (September 10); "Rainforest Economics." New Paradigm Digest (Summer). "Using
Market Forces to Save Nature." Fortune (January 14); "Taking the fruit, leaving the tree." Outside
(January).
1991 Radio interviews: National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" (December 31); Waldon Radio (November
19); WBCN (December 16); The Cambridge Forum (October 2).
1990 Television Talk Show Interview. CBC-TV Beyond the Line with Laurier LaPierre (June 11); "Nightwatch"
of CBS TV. Washington, DC. (March 28); "In Person" of WJLA TV. Washington, DC (March 28).
1990 Interviews for articles: "Nonprofits and Ecobusiness Creation." In Business (November/December);
"Snacks that help save rain forests." Environment section, USA Today (November 28); "Rainforest
Goods." Hot Products/Hot Markets section, Adweek (November 19); "A 'Nutty' Effort on Behalf of
Brazil's Rain Forest." The Christian Science Monitor (October 10); "Crunch Goes the Rain Forest."
Harvard Magazine (September-October); "Better a forest bled than dead." Weekend Guardian (London)
(September 1-2); "Rain of Plenty." Vogue (July); "Rain forest chic." The New Republic (June 25); "Rain
Forest, Inc." Elle Magazine (June V.10); "Forest Sceptics." The Economist (May 26); "Harvesting
Exotic Crops To Save Brazil's Forest." New York Times (April 30); People Magazine (Spring).
1990 Radio Interviews: "The Morning Show" of WRC Radio, Silver Spring, MD (March 28); "Diane Rehm
Show" of WAMU Radio, American University. Washington, DC. (March 28); Voice of America/
Bandeirantes Radio series on environmental issues (March 3);
1989 Interviews for articles: "Using rainforest products to prevent their destruction." Ottawa Citizen
(October 29); "Marketing the Rain Forests." San Francisco Chronicle (October 1); "Rain-forest products:
Growing Profits." The Economist (September); "Marketing the rain forest to save it." The Baltimore Sun
(July 30); "Friends of the rain forest see salvation in its native fruits." Miami Herald (July 24); "Tropical
Forests Yielding New Products." Food Institute Report (June 3). "Saving Brazil's Rainforest: New
Products With a Cause." The San Francisco Chronicle (May 31); "Hug a Tree, Kiss an Herb." Newsweek
(May 1); "Environmentalists map ways for consumers to help save the forests." The Boston Globe April
10).