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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... plant diversity , and the prevalence of diverse occupations based on plants and biomass . Strategies for genetic engineering resistance which are de- stroying useful species of plants can also end up creating superweeds . There is an ...
... plant from Madagascar is the source of at least 60 alkaloids which can treat childhood leukaemia and Hodgkin's Disease . Drugs derived from this plant bring in about US $ 160 million worth of sales each year . Yet another plant ...
... plants or parts of plants that do not serve the commercial interest but are essential for survival of nature and people . ' Improvement ' of a selected characteristic in a plant , is also a selection against other characteristics which ...
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 |