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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... displace alternatives , they destroy their own basis . They are neither tolerant of other systems , nor are they able to ... displacement of the forest diversity and its substitution by uniform monocultures . Since the biological ...
... displaced by dams , mines , factories , and com- mercial agriculture that their relationship to biodiversity becomes antagonistic rather than co - operative . The displacement of people and displacement of diversity goes hand in hand ...
... displacement of biodiversity for local food needs . Many African countries rely on single crops for export earnings . With the emergence of the new biotechnologies and the in- dustrial production of substitutes for the biological ...
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 |