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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... hand in hand with monopoly rights over the control of biodiversity and threatens us with unanticipated disasters in the form of the gene revolution . The native seed becomes a system of resistance against monocultures and monopoly ...
... hand in hand . Communities everywhere in the world have developed knowl- edge and found ways to derive livelihoods from the bounties of nature's diversity , in wild and domesticated forms . Hunting and gathering communities use ...
... hand in hand with the erosion of biological resources and their capacity to fulfil diverse human needs while regenerating and renewing themselves . Attempts to increase commodity flows in one direction generate multiple levels of ...
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 |