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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... depend on the fertility of the forest for the fertility of agricultural land . In the ' scientific ' system which splits forestry from agriculture and reduces forestry to timber and wood supply , food is no longer a category related to ...
... depend on the stability of nature's cycles to provide sustenance in the form of food and water . The Eucalyptus guzzles nutrients and water and , in the specific conditions of low rainfall zones , gives nothing back but terpenes to the ...
... depend on the fertilizers , agrichemicals and machineries produced by conglomerates of the Transnational Corporations . ' The International Bureau for Plant Genetic Resources ( IBPGR ) which is run by the CGIAR system was specifically ...
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 |