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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... institutions controlled by the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research ( CGIAR ) , which it launched in 1970 . The Tropical Forest Action Plan ( TFAP ) which is cited as an example of a strategy for conserving habitats ...
... institutions . Some scientists then moved out to build their own biotechnology companies . Now it is the giant agrochemical , pharmaceutical and food processing transnationals that dominate the research and the markets . Along with the ...
... institutional structure referred to in Article 21 on an interim basis , for the period between the entry into force of this Convention and the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties or until the Conference of the Parties decides ...
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 |