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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... yield of the diverse crop outputs in the mixed and rotational systems . Usually the yield of a single crop like wheat or maize is singled out and compared to yields of new varieties . Even if the yields of all the crops were included ...
... yield and productivity allow a higher destruction that affects future yields , they also exclude the perception of how the two systems differ dramatically in terms of inputs ( Figure 5 ) . The indigenous cropping systems are based only ...
Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. 1 terms of yield of wood for other purposes , and in terms of yields of non - woody biomass for fodder it has zero yields since its leaves are not eaten by cattle . Given that ...
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 |