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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... Genetic Resources ( IBPGR ) which is run by the CGIAR system was specifically created for the collection and conservation of genetic resources . However , it has emerged as an instrument for the transfer of resources from the South to ...
Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. Board for Plant Genetic Resources which is associated with a United Nations agency but controlled by CGIAR ) . The gene banks , most of them in or under the control of ...
... resources , the authority to determine access to genetic resources rests with the national governments and is subject to national legislation . 2. Each Contracting Party shall endeavour to create conditions to facilitate access to ...
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 |