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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... allow true selective working - the removal of each tree ( of desirable species ) as soon as it reaches commercial size . Not only does each tree cause consid- erable damage when it falls , but the heavy logging equipment needed causes ...
... allowing monopoly rights over individual genes and even characteristics . PBR is not an owner- ship over germ plasm in the ... allow for multiple claims that can cover not only whole plants but plant parts and processes as well . So ...
... allow the seed industry to realise one of its longest held and most cherished goals : to force all farmers into dependence on the companies every year . Industrial patents allow the right to use the product , not to make it . Since seed ...
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 |