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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... patented livestock , and , according to the US patent law , the offspring of patented livestock would also be subject to royalty charges throughout the 17 or 22 years of patent protection . Fowler et . al . have called this the patent ...
... Patent protection displaces the farmer as a competitor , transforms him into a supplier of free raw material , and makes him totally dependent on industrial supplies for vital inputs like seeds . Above all , the frantic cry for patent ...
... patent laws have excluded the monopoly over biologi- cal processes which are essential to sustenance and survival ... patent holders . Arguing that these potential profits are not being made because of an absence of a worldwide ...
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 |