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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... outputs of agricultural commodities . Yet , the fertility of soils cannot be reduced to NPK in factories , and agriculture productivity necessarily includes returning to the soil part of the biological products that the soil yields ...
... outputs . Forests produce wood , food , fodder , water etc. Agriculture produces diversity of food crops . Productivity in local system is a multi- dimensional measure , which has a conservation aspect . Increasing productivity in these ...
... output is an economic imperative . Table 1 Inputs and useful outputs from US cattle and Indian cattle and buffalo ( 1972 ) . Reprinted from Leon ( 1975 ) . Inputs and outputs Matter Energy Protein ( 1010kg ) ( 1012calories ) ( 10 kg ) ...
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 |