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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... companies realise that nature holds rich sources of profit they begin to covet the potential wealth of tropical moist forests as a source for medicines . For instance , the periwinkle plant from Madagascar is the source of at least 60 ...
... companies . Today , the top ten companies control over 20 % of the global market , and have interests in chemicals , pesticides and pharmaceuticals . It is ex- pected that by 2000 the top ten will control most of the seed market ...
... companies every year . Industrial patents allow the right to use the product , not to make it . Since seed makes itself , a strong utility patent for seed implies that a farmer purchasing seed would have the right to use ( to grow ) the ...
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 |