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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... Seeds come from the farm , soil fertility comes from the farm and pest control is built into the crop mixtures . In the Green Revolution package , yields are intimately tied to purchased inputs of seeds , chemical fertilisers ...
... seed makes itself , a strong utility patent for seed implies that a farmer purchasing seed would have the right to use ( to grow ) the seed , but not the right to make seed ( to save and replant ) . The farmer who saves and replants seeds ...
... seeds . One study puts seeds sales of Ciba - Geigy as high as US $ 245 million and Aritois sales as low as US $ 104 million . Shell sold off part of its seed interests to Limagrain , thus adding some US $ 100 million to the French ...
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 |