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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... production displaces local knowledge systems which view the forest in the perspective of food production , fodder production and water production . The exclusive focus on industrial wood destroys the food , fodder and water production ...
... production through diver- sity . Diverse systems have multiple outputs and yields , and much of these outputs flow back within the system to allow for ' low- external - input ' production , so that production is possible without access ...
... production in agriculture , forestry and animal husbandry . The practice of diversity is the key to its conservation . Biodiversity cannot be conserved until diversity is made the logic of production . If production continues to be ...
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 |