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Title: Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 1-85649-218-4 Publisher: Zed Books Pub. Date: August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Change the mono-minds
Comment: Vandana Shiva's books are essential reading for anybody who wants to explore seriously the impact of biotechnology on the so-called "third world"; on their food production, their environment, and the disappearing biodiversity of their traditional food crops. It is easy to find books that claim biotechnology is the answer to the developing world's woes. It's much more difficult to find considered and well researched investigations from southern experts and scientists on the challenges the "benefits" of biotechnology are bringing to their cultures.
MONOCULTURES OF THE MIND is a collection of essays representing such a "southern" scientist's vital perspective. Shiva makes provocative contributions in the ever expanding debate around what (and who) will feed future generations of humans in the developing world. She argues that a mono-agriculture society - where trees are seen as nothing more than timber and crop yield is the only measure for economic value of cereals - reflects a mental and political system that will lack in vision and complexity in general. However, diverse knowledge systems are necessary to address the challenges ahead of us. For example, in traditional societies, trees have multiple purposes, from food, water reservoir and shelter to nutrients of the soil around them. Timber value is only one (small) part of the whole. Traditional knowledge systems contribute in major ways to the understanding of biodiversity, ecological sustainability and cultural, including agri-cultural, diversity.
Vandana Shiva is a geneticist as well as an environmentalist and her expertise comes to the fore in her analysis of threats to biodiversity and the dramatic loss of species and varieties in modern times. She also reviews various negative impacts posed by biotechnology on fragile southern ecosystems and the dangers to southern economies.
You don't have to agree with all of Vandana Shiva's views, BUT, you should read some of her books for what she has to say and what she represents. MONOCULTURES is a good starting point.
Rating: 4
Summary: interesting
Comment: The book was somewhat interesting. It doesnot really reflect what she wanted to say
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Title: Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 0896085554 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 0896086070 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 089608650X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Alternatives to Economic Globalization by John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, Sarah Anderson, Debi Barker, Maude Barlow, Walden Bello, Robin Broad, Tony Clarke, Edward Goldsmith, Randy Hayes ISBN: 1576752046 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: India on Fire : The Lethal Mix of Free Trade, Famine and Fundamentalism in India by Vandana Shiva ISBN: 1583225404 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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