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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... reduced to the timber of commer- cially valuable species . ' Scientific forestry ' in its present form is a reductionist system of knowledge which ignores the complex relationships within the forest community and between plant life and ...
... REDUCED TO PART OF CROP ( GRAIN ) PC , CEREAL CROPS OF WHEAT OR RICE REDUCED TO PART OF CROP ( GRAIN ) PC2 The real scientific comparison should be between two farming systems - FS , and FS2 , with the full range of inputs and outputs ...
... reduced by certain human activities , Aware of the general lack of information and knowledge regarding biological ... reduction or loss of biological diversity at source , Noting also that where there is a threat of significant reduction ...
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 |