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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... fodder supply for peasant communities in the Himalaya comes from forest sources , with forest trees supplying 20 % .12 In Dehra Dun , 57 % of the annual fodder supply comes from the forests.13 . Besides fodder inputs , forests also make ...
... fodder or green fertilizer , it is relevant to measure crown biomass productivity . India , with its rich genetic diversity in plants and animals , is richly endowed with various types of fodder trees which have annual yields of crown ...
... Fodder Trees and Tree Fodder in Nepal , Swiss Development Cooperation , Berne 13 . 14 . 15 . Singh , S P. and Berry , A. 1985 , Forestry Land Evaluation at District Level , FAO Bangkok Mahat , T B S. 1987 , Forestry - Farming Linkages ...
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 |