The Vandana Shiva Reader.

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Shiva, Vandana [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Culture of the landPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (365 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813145600
0813145600
9780813146997
0813146992
9780813146980
0813146984
9780813153292
0813153298

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vandana Shiva Reader.DDC classification:

LOC classification:

S494.5.A39

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Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Gendered Politics of Food; 2 Science and Politicsin the Green Revolution; 3 The Hijacking ofthe Global Food Supply; 4 Hunger by Design; 5 Monocultures of the Mind; 6 Toward a NewAgriculture Paradigm; 7 Can Life Be Made?Can Life Be Owned?; 8 The Seed and the Earth; 9 Seeds of Suicide; 10 Seed Freedom-What Is at Stake; 11 Food and Water; 12 Soil, Not Oil; 13 The GMO EmperorHas No Clothes; Appendix; Selected Bibliography; Copyrights and Permissions; Index.

Summary: ""Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity.""--Wendell Berry, from the forewordMotivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the li.

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""Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity.""--Wendell Berry, from the forewordMotivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the li.