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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... pest control . Since many pests are specific in particular plants , planting crops in different seasons and different years causes large reductions in pest population . On the other hand , planting the same crop over large areas year ...
... pests including bacterial blight and tungro . However this was attacked by two new viruses called ' ragged stunt ' and ' wilted stunt ' . The vulnerability of rice to new pests and disease due to monocropping and a narrow genetic base ...
... pests with a crop loss of 30 to 100 % ... Most of the HYVs are the derivatives of TN1 or IR - 8 and therefore , have the dwarfing gene of Dee - Geo - Woo - Gen . The narrow genetic base has created alarming uniformity , causing ...
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 |