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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... India , Indian Council of Agricultural Research , p97 12. Panday , K K. 1982 , Fodder Trees and Tree Fodder in Nepal , Swiss Development Cooperation , Berne 13 . 14 . 15 . Singh , S P. and Berry , A. 1985 , Forestry Land Evaluation at ...
... India would have to spend about US $ 1,000 million annually on petrol . Indian cattle excrete 700 million tonnes a year of recover- able manure : half of this is used as fuel , liberating the thermal equivalent of 27 million tonnes of ...
... Indian cattle and buffalo ( 1972 ) . Reprinted from Leon ( 1975 ) . Inputs and outputs Matter Energy Protein ( 1010kg ) ( 1012calories ) ( 10 kg ) USA India USA India USA India Inputs Edible by man 11.9 0.68 38.6 1.7 16.0 2.1 Inedible ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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