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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... material diversification . Although breeders draw genetic materials from many places as raw material input , the seed commodity that is sold back to farmers is charac- terised by uniformity . Uniformity and monopolistic seed supplies go ...
... material for commercial objectives . Unlike other commodities , biotechnology commodities replace and substitute the original biodiversity which they consume as raw material . It is this double transformation induced by biotechnology ...
... materials should be treated , now opens the door to Northern countries to patent the resources in their gene banks ... materials . The result of the consequent patenting is that developing countries would have to pay high prices for ...
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 |