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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... contributed US $ 340 million per year between 1976 and 1980 to the US farm economy . The total contribution of wild germplasm to the American economy has been US $ 66 billion , which is more than the total international debt of Mexico ...
... contributed biological resources freely to the North , Third World governments are no longer willing to have ... contributions of Third World peasants , tribals and healers are reduced to their parts , and treated as mere inputs ...
... contributions of local communities to the development of biodiversity , it is imperative that the regime based on bio - imperi- alism be replaced by structures based on biodemocracy . Gandhi has shown us that absolute power based on ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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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 |