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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... resistance or bacterial toxin formation into bacte- rial strains that do not at present carry such determinants ; or construction of new bacterial plasmids containing combinations of resistance of clinically useful antibiotics unless ...
... resistance 40 Herbicide resistance 26 Nitrogen - fixation 20 Pest resistance 18 Stress resistance 15 Protein improvement 18 Plant diagnostics 54 Plant food / feed 75 443-23-3∞ 38 15 8 1 6 1 4 4 1 1 19 8 56 Other related products 10 2 ...
... resistant crops will increase herbicide use and thus increase the damage to economically and ecologi- cally useful plant species . Strategies of genetic engineering for herbicide resistance which are destroying useful species of plants ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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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 |