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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... North . Only 17 are in the national collections of Third World countries . Of the 81 base collections in the North , 10 are in the hands of the countries that fund IBPGR . The US has accused countries of the Third World as engaging in ...
... North . It is as if the mind and the solutions are in the North , while the matter and the problems are in the South . This polarity and dualism underlies the basic shortcomings of the book , which could more honestly have been titled ...
... North and in the private sector . The focus on biodiversity discussions has so far been confined to Box 1 . The focus should , in fact , be on Box 2 which allows the evolution of coherent and integrated framework to discuss issues such ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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Copyright | |
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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 |