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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... inputs ( Figure 5 ) . The 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 ...
... inputs of chemical fertilizers from factories and marketed outputs of agricultural commodities . Yet , the fertility ... inputs for maintaining soil fertility were totally ignored in the cost - benefit equations of the Green Revolution ...
... inputs to produce . As the seed and chemical companies merge , the dependence on inputs will increase , not decrease . And ecologically , whether a chemical is added exter- nally or internally , it remains an external input in the ...
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 |