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Scientific Committee
Luca Cavalli Sforza - geneticist and genetic diversity expert
Luca Cavalli Sforza was the director of microbiology research laboratories at the Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese and the Istituto di Genetica at the Università di Pavia; he has taught at Cambridge University, the Università di Parma and the Università di Pavia and is currently a Professor Emeritus of genetics at the University of Stanford in California (since 1992).
Sforza has studied human evolution for forty years and starting in 1991, began work with the research program “Human Genome Diversity Project”, which aims to reconstruct the map of the planet’s populations through the analysis of mitochondrial DNA.
He is the author of almost 500 scientific publications and numerous books of great scientific and cultural significance.
Publications:
“Introduzione alla genetica umana” (Mondadori, Milano 1974)
“Genetica, Evoluzione, Uomo” (Mondadori, Milano 1977)
“Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach” con M.W. Feldman, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1981)
“La transizione neolitica e la genetica di popolazione in Europa", con A.J. Ammerman (Bollati Boringhieri, Milano 1986)
“Chi siamo - La Storia della Diversità Umana”, con F. Cavalli-Sforza (Mondadori, Milano, 1993)
"Geni, Popoli e Lingue" (Adelphi, Milano 1996)
“Storia e Geografia dei Geni Umani” (Adelphi, Milano 1997)
“La Scienza della Felicità”, con F. Cavalli-Sforza (Mondadori, Milano 1997)
“L’evoluzione della cultura” (Codice, Torino, 2004)
Marcello Buiatti - geneticist
Since 1982, Marcello Buiatti has held the genetics chair at the Università di Firenze.
His scientific interests include plant mutagenesis, evolutionistic genetics, plant biotechnology and mathematical and computational analyses of dynamic biological processes.
In his field, Buiatti has directed several scientific projects and programs both on national and international levels as an Italian delegate of the European community, DGXII etc.
He is the president of the national environmental association Environment and Work and has taken part in numerous international projects and activities tied to bioethics and epistemological studies.
Author of more than 200 scientific publications and five books, he is furthermore actively employed in promoting scientific education at all levels.
Publications:
“Le frontiere della genetica” (Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1984)
“L'ingegneria genetica fra biologia, etica e mercato" (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2001)
“Le biotecnologie” (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2001)
“Lo stato vivente della materia” (UTET Libreria, Torino, 2001)
“Il Benevolo disordine della vita” (UTET Libreria, Torino, 2004)
“Fra natura e cultura”, con S. Beccastrini, (Nuova Italia 2001)
Vandana Shiva - Scientist and theorist of social ecology
Quantum physicist and economist, Shiva directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in Dehradun, India.
She is considered to be the most noted theorist of the new science: social ecology.
In 1982, in her home city, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Policy of Natural Resources, an independent research institute in strict collaboration with local communities and social movements that deals with the most significant problems concerning social ecology today.
In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, specifically native seeds at risk of extinction.
In 2002, in collaboration with Navdanya, Slow Food launched India’s first two presidia: Dehradun Basmati Rice and Orissa Mustard Oil Pickles.
Publications:
2005, Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, South End Press
2005, Breakfast of Biodiversity: the Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
2005, Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms Women Unlimited, New Delh
2002, Water Wars; Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts
2002, Vedic Ecology: Practical Wisdom for Surviving the 21st Century, Mandala Publishing Group, Novato, California
2001, Water Wars, South End Press, Boston 2001, Patents, Myths and Reality, Penguin India
2000, Tomorrow's Biodiversity, Thames and Hudson, London1999, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts1997, Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts
1995, Biopolitics (with Ingunn Moser), Zed Books, United Kingdom
1994, Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide, Earthscan, London
1993, Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Fernwood Publications, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1993, Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Zed Press, New Delhi
1993, Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections (editor), Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and Kali for Women, New Delhi
1992, Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (editor); Zed Press, United Kingdom
1992, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab, Zed Press, New Delhi
1991, Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California1988, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India, Zed Press, New Delhi
1981, Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in Kolar, Vandana Shiva, H.C. Sharatchandra, J. Banyopadhyay, Indian Institute Of Management, Bangalore
Aminata Dramane Traorè - politician and writer
Aminata Dramane Traorè, born in Bamako (Mali) in 1947, is one of the thinkers behind the African Social Forum.
As Malian Minster of Culture (1997-2000), she became famous for her radical denouncements of neo-liberalism and the oppression of Africa.
She currently collaborates with various international organizations as an expert in African economics and has one of the most original and listened to critical voices on the continent.
For several years, she has actively followed the activities of the Social World Forum, bringing to the table, through initiatives dedicated to Africa, a point of view often forgotten or at most, considered marginal in the “third world” debate.
Publications:
L’étau, édition Actes Sud, 1999
Le viol de l’imaginaire, édition Fayard, 2002
Lettre au président des Français à propos de la Côte-d'Ivoire et de l'Afrique en général, édition Fayard, 2005
Harold McGee - chemist and molecular gastronomy expert
Harold McGee is a world expert on food chemistry and molecular gastronomy.
He has studied and taught literature at Yale and is the author of numerous popular articles and essays on food chemistry.
His first publication, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, in 1984, was the first book to outline gastronomic diversity and to become a true reference for the sector.
McGee currently lives in Palo Alto in California and deals full time with popular science: he regularly holds lectures on chemistry in the kitchen at various universities and cultural organizations and carries out counseling activities. He also writes regularly for the New York Times, The World Book Encyclopedia, The Art of Eating, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking and Physics Today.
Publications:
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore
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