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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... impacts ( Figure 6 ) . As Dr Palmer concluded in the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development's 15 nation study of the impact of the seeds , the term ' high yielding varieties ' is a misnomer because it implies that the ...
... impact of the new technolo- gies on health and environmental safety , economic impacts on employments and commodity exports . Biotechnology Industry S - N flow of biological resources as raw material Box 1 in Private Sector in the North ...
... Impact Assessment and Minimizing Adverse Impacts Each Contracting Party , as far as possible and as appropriate , shall : ( a ) Introduce appropriate procedures requiring environmental impact as- sessment of its proposed projects that ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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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 |