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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... processes will undermine and underdevelop agriculture in the Third World in a number of ways . Firstly , it will undermine our cultural and ethical fabric based on agriculture , in which the fundamental life processes are treated as ...
... processes of nature which renew life support systems and the resource demands and impacts of technological processes . Technological processes can lead to higher withdrawals and consumption of natural resources or higher additions of ...
... processes of production that underlies both the problem of dispossession of farmers and of genetic erosion . The new ... process of polarisation . It will even increase the use of chemicals instead of decreasing it . The dominant focus ...
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 |