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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... essential for nutri- tion and soil fertility . The monocultures of the dwarf varieties of wheat and rice also squeezed out the straw which was essential for fodder and fertilizing the soil . The yields were ' high ' for the purposes of ...
... essential to sustenance and survival . Food , plant and animal varieties , and biological processes for the pro- duction of plants and animals are excluded from patentability . However , living organisms are central to production proc ...
... essential for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity : as stated in Article 16 ( 1 ) . Diverse species exist independent of technology , though , biotechnology depends on biodiversity to provide raw material for ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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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 |