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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... means one thing for a paper corporation which needs pulping wood and an entirely different thing for a peasant who needs fodder and green manure . Im- provement of crop species means one thing for a food processing industry and ...
... means for introducing additional variation , it is also a means for engineering genetic uniformity across species . ' The application of DNA transfer to crop improvement may result in a greater degree of genetic uniformity among ...
... means a geographically defined area which is designated or regulated and managed to achieve specific conservation objectives . ' Regional economic integration organization ' means an organization con- stituted by sovereign States of a ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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Copyright | |
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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 |