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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Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. and are toxic to soil organisms which are responsible for building soil fertility and improving soil structure . The eucalyptus cer- tainly increased cash and commodity flows ...
... soil and water systems . The Green Revolution led to a shift from earlier rotations of cereals , oilseeds , and ... soil nutri- ents . This involves returning to the soil , part of the nutrients that come from the soil either directly as ...
... soils cannot be reduced to NPK in factories , and agriculture productivity necessarily includes returning to the soil part of the biological products that the soil yields . Technologies cannot substitute nature and work outside nature's ...
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 |