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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... protection , agribusiness and the seed trade are trying to achieve truly global reach . While the rhetoric is agricultural development in the Third World , the enforcement of strong patent protection for monopoly ownership of life ...
... 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 protection ...
... protection . The final draft of the convention had introduced a clause that stated that ' In the case of technology subject to patents and other intellectual property rights , such access and transfer shall be provided on terms 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 |