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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... increased use of herbicides is killing the reeds and grasses . The introduction of herbicide - resistant crops will increase herbicide use and thus increase the damage to economically and ecologi- cally useful plant species . Strategies ...
... increase , not decrease . And ecologically , whether a chemical is added exter- nally or internally , it remains an ... increase the reliance of farmers on purchased inputs even as it accelerates the process of polarisation . It will ...
... increase commodity flows in one direction generate multiple levels of scarcities in related outputs . Increase of grain leads to decrease of fodder and fertiliser . Increase of cereals leads to decrease of pulses and oilseeds . The increase ...
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 |