Zed Books, Date: 1993. Paperback. New. 184 pages. 8.25x6.00x0.50 inches. 1993. Zed Books ISBN 1856492184 9781856492188 [GB]

ISBN10: 1856492184, ISBN13: 9781856492188, [publisher: Zed Books] Softcover 184 pages. 8.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1993]

Zed Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor Zed Books ISBN 1856492184 9781856492188 [CA]

ISBN10: 1856492184, ISBN13: 9781856492188, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 ...
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