Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and BiotechnologyPalgrave Macmillan, 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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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
The Cracks of Fragmentation | 12 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
The Green Revolution and Miracle Seeds | 39 |
The NonSustainability of Monocultures | 50 |
Democratising Knowledge | 59 |
CHAPTER 2 | 65 |
Effects of Biodiversity Erosion | 73 |
CHAPTER 3 | 95 |
Biotechnology and Chemical Hazards | 108 |
Biotechnology and Biodiversity | 114 |
Biotechnology Patents and Private Property in Life Forms | 120 |
Appendices to Chapter 3 | 128 |
CHAPTER 4 | 133 |
Conclusion | 146 |
Appendix to Chapter 5 Convention on Biological Diversity | 161 |
Limitations of the Dominant Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation | 82 |
From Bioimperialism to Biodemocracy | 88 |
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva No preview available - 2011 |