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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... corporations do talk of contributing to genetic diversity . As John Duesing of Ciba - Geigy states , ' Patent ... corporate strategies and the diversity of life - forms on this planet are not the same thing , and corporate competition ...
... corporations . With worldwide patent protection , agribusiness and the seed trade are trying to achieve truly global reach . While the rhetoric is agricultural development in the Third World , the enforcement of strong patent protection ...
... corporations . At the core of the business are property rights and patents which guarantee profits , excluding others from rights and access to the means of survival . Royalty payments from farmers are expected to reap $ 7 billion for ...
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 |