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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... result of herbicide spraying . The destruction in India will be far greater because of higher plant diversity , and the prevalence of diverse occupations based on plants and biomass . Strategies for genetic engineering resistance which ...
... result of herbicide spraying . The destruction in the Third World will be far greater because of higher plant diversity , and the prevalence of diverse occupations based on plants and biomass . Thousands of rural women who make their ...
... results and benefits arising from biotechnologies based upon genetic resources provided by those Contracting Parties ... resulting from biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biological ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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Copyright | |
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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 |