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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... organisms is totally unknown and uncharted territory . Further , unlike hazardous chemicals such as pesticides and ecologically harmful substances like CFCs , the products of genetic engineering cannot be removed from the market . As ...
... organisms are central to production proc- esses in biotechnology . The need for ownership rights to living organisms is essential for the next stage of capital accumulation by global corporations . At the core of the business are ...
... organisms , as well as any available information on the potential adverse impact of the specific organisms concerned to the Contracting Party into which those organisms are to be introduced . Article 20. Financial Resources 1. Each ...
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 |