Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and BiotechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 1993 - 184 pages Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her 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. |
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... Green Revolution and ' Miracle ' Seeds In agriculture , too , the monoculture mind creates the monoculture crop . The miracle of the new seeds has most often been communicated through the term ' high ... Green Revolution and 'Miracle' Seeds.
... Green Revolution created the perception that soil fertility is produced in chemical factories , and agricultural yields are measured only through marketed commodities . Nitrogen fixing crops like pulses were therefore displaced ...
... Green Revolution agriculture replaces this integration at the level of the farm with the integration of inputs such as seeds and chemicals . The seed / chemical package sets up its own interactions with soils and water systems , which ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva Limited preview - 1993 |
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva No preview available - 2011 |