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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... indigenous alterna- tives . This is quite clearly untrue for ecozones where Eucalyptus has had no productivity due to pest damage . It is also not true for zones with poor soils and poor water endowment , as the reports on yields make ...
... indigenous trees have broad crowns that grow in three dimen- sions . The Green Revolution and ' Miracle ' Seeds In agriculture , too , the monoculture mind creates the monoculture crop . The miracle of the new seeds has most often been ...
... indigenous cropping systems are based only on internal organic inputs . Seeds come from the farm , soil fertility comes from the farm and pest control is built into the crop mixtures . In the Green Revolution package , yields are ...
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 |