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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... farming systems for a number of reasons . The Green Revolution category of HYV is essentially a reductionist category ... farm with the integration of inputs such as seeds and chemicals . Monocultures of the Mind 39 The Green Revolution ...
... farm system . In traditional - farming systems , production has also in- volved maintaining the conditions of productivity . The meas- urement of yields and productivity in the Green Revolution paradigm is divorced from seeing how the ...
... farm animals and plants . Green Revolution agriculture replaces this integration at the level of the farm with the integration of inputs such as seeds and chemicals . The seed / chemical package sets up its own interactions with soils ...
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 |