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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... form have been based on only the knowledge of foresters who have been trained only to look for the woody biomass in the tree , these important high yielding species of other forms of biomass have been totally ignored in these programmes ...
... forms , and to diverse cultures . The co - evolution of cultures , life forms and habitats has conserved the biological diversity on this planet . Cultural diversity and biological diversity go hand in hand . Communities everywhere in ...
... Forms The ultimate expression of privatisation of biotechnology is the desperate urge by TNCs , operating through the US Trade J Representative , World Bank , GATT and WIPO , to 120 Monocultures of the Mind Biotechnology, Patents and ...
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 |