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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... crops and parts of crops ( Figure 4 ) . Crop components of one system are then measured with crop compo- nents of another . Since the Green Revolution strategy is aimed at increasing the output of a single component of a farm , at the ...
... cropping , which are essential for a sustainable and ecologically balanced form of agriculture , since the other crops would be destroyed by the herbicide . US estimates now show a loss of US $ 4 billion per annum due to crop loss as a ...
... crops and parts of crops . Crop components of one system are then measured with crop components of another . Since the Green Revolution strategy is aimed at increasing the output of a single component from a farm , at the cost of ...
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 |