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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... important components of indigenous forms of social forestry as practised over centuries in India . After a brief gestation period fruit trees yield annual harvests of edible biomass on a sustainable and renewable basis . Tamarind trees ...
... important for its conservation and sustainable use having regard to the indicative list of categories set down in Annex I ; ( b ) Monitor , through sampling and other techniques , the components of biological diversity identified ...
... importance ; or importance for research into the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity , such as indicator species ; and 3. Described genomes and genes of social , scientific or economic importance . Annex II Part I ...
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 |