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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... trees to the crops , disappeared and was replaced by the work of brokers and middlemen who brought the eucalyptus trees on behalf of industry . Industrialists , foresters and bureaucrats loved the euca- lyptus because it grows straight ...
... trees yield annual harvests of edible biomass on a sustainable and renewable basis . Tamarind trees yield fruits for even over two centuries . Other trees , such as , neem , pongamia and sal provide annual harvest of seeds which yield ...
... trees bigger than 12 or 16 inches around , they could sustain supplies for another rotation . Taking smaller trees on the second cut would not , of course , make the forest grow faster , for a third , fourth , and fifth rotation ...
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 |