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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... creating superweeds . There is an intimate relationship between weeds and crops , especially in the tropics where ... created from the perspective of increasing commercial output , and responds only to values on the market , it cannot ...
... created alarming uniformity , causing vulnerability to disease and pests . Most of the released varieties are not ... creation of monocultures , and with creation of monocultures , the Monocultures are associated with external inputs ...
... created through centralised control . In this process of control , reductionist science and tech- nology act as handmaidens for economically powerful interests . The struggle between the factory and the spinning wheel continues as new ...
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 |