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Monocultures of the Mind - Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology (Paperback)
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Monocultures of the Mind - Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology (Paperback)
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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.
In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats
to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human
consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural
production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been
gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the
process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money
out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these
technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in
practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species
for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental
problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the
North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to
a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being
foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically
sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable
food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This
rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is
impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems
that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately
result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy
intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead
for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and
market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where
biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised,
homogenous systems of cultivation.
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