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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Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. Preamble Appendix Convention on Biological Diversity 5 June 1992 The Contracting Parties , Conscious of the intrinsic value of biological diversity and of the ecological ...
... biological diversity and affirming the need for the full partici- pation of women at all levels of policy - making and implementation for biological diversity conservation , Stressing the importance of , and the need to promote ...
Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. sustainable use of biological diversity . Article 6. General Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use Each Contracting Party shall , in accordance with its particular ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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