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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... 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 ' unfair trading practice ' if they fail to adopt US ...
... Third World governments are no longer willing to have biological wealth taken for free and sold back at exorbitant prices to the Third World as ' improved ' seeds and packaged drugs . From the Third World viewpoint , it is considered ...
... global reach . While the rhetoric is agricultural development in the Third World , the enforcement of strong patent protection for monopoly ownership of life processes will undermine and underdevelop agriculture in the Third World in a ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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 |