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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... called ' promotive cultivar ' . Those varieties created by modern plant breeders in international agricultural research centres or by transnational seed corpora- tions are called ' advanced ' or ' elite ' . Yet the only aspect in which ...
... called ' Daruma ' and American wheat called ' Faltz ' which the Japanese government had imported from the US in 1887. The ' Norin ' wheat was brought to the US in 1946 by Dr D C Salmon , an agriculturist acting as a US military adviser ...
... called tungro . In 1975 , Indonesian farmers lost half a million acres of Green Revolution rice varieties to leaf hoppers . In 1977 , IR - 36 was developed to be resistant to 8 major diseases and pests including bacterial blight and ...
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 |