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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... chemical fertilizers from factories and marketed outputs of agricultural commodities . Yet , the fertility of soils cannot be reduced to NPK in factories , and agriculture productivity necessarily includes returning to the soil part of ...
... Chemical Hazards While the area of biohazards is largely uncertain territory , after 40 years of chemical hazards , we know with 108 Monocultures of the Mind Biotechnology and Chemical Hazards.
... chemical multina- tional companies , this might make commercial sense , since it is cheaper to adopt the plant to the chemical than to adopt the chemical to the plant . The cost of developing a new crop variety rarely reaches US $ 2 ...
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 |