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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... agriculture showed that it was primarily a recipe for the introduction of monocultures and the destruction of diversity . This was also linked to the introduction of centralised control of agriculture and the erosion of decentralised ...
... agriculture . On one estimate , 2.4 metric tons of litter and manure are used per ha of cultivated land annually.14 As this input declines , agricultural yields also go down . The diverse knowledge systems which have evolved with the ...
... agriculture Each separate system made one dimensional . Forests produce only commercial wood . Agriculture produces only commercial crops with industrial inputs . Productivity is a one dimensional measure which is unrelated to ...
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 |