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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... rice variety called Mokdo of Bastar who adopted his own cultivation practices obtained about 3,700 to 4,700 kgs of paddy per hectare . Another rice grower of Dhamtari block ( Raipur ) with just a hectare of rice land , falling not in an ...
... rice . Secondly , the intro- duced wheat and rice varieties reproduced over large - scale as monocultures came from a very narrow genetic base , compared to the high genetic variability in the population of traditional wheat or rice ...
... Rice Research Institute released a ' miracle ' rice variety – IR - 8 , which was quickly adopted for use through Asia . IR - 8 was particularly susceptible to a wide range of disease and pests : in 1968 and 1969 it was hit hard by ...
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 |