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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... industrial raw material . Viewing diversity as weeds leads to the extinction of that diversity which has high ecological and social value even when it does not profit industry . The pattern of destruction of diversity has been the same ...
... industry . As Kloppenburg has indicated , with Hibberd , a judicial framework is now in place that may allow the seed industry to realise one of its longest held and most cherished goals : to force all farmers into dependence on the ...
... industry . The Bush Administration did not want the Earth Summit to put in place any international safety regulation on biotechnology industry , but insisted on patent regulation to protect industry profits . It wants to give industry a ...
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 |