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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... farmers ' right to save seed . He says : ' Even though it has been a tradition in most countries that a farmer can ... farmers . The Third World farmer has a three level relationship with the corporations demanding a monopoly of life ...
... farmers , who are the original breeders and developers of biological resources in agriculture . It is argued that patent protection is essential for innovation – however , it is essential only for innovation that brings profits to ...
... farmers and the seed industry . As Kloppenburg has indicated , with Hibberd , a judicial framework is now in place that may allow the seed industry to realise one of its longest held and most cherished goals : to force all farmers into ...
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 |