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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... uniformity means that a disturbance to one part is translated into a disturbance to all other parts . Instead of being contained , ecological destabilisation tends to be amplified . Closely linked to the issue of diversity and uniformity ...
... uniformity . Uniformity and monopolistic seed supplies go hand in hand . When this monopolising control is achieved through the molecular mind , destruction of diversity becomes more accelerated . As Jack Kloppenburg has warned ...
... uniformity and homogenisation , uniformity will continue to displace diversity . ' Improvement ' from the corporate viewpoint or from the viewpoint of Western agricultural research is often a loss for the Third World , especially the ...
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 |