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The Vandana Shiva reader

Title
The Vandana Shiva reader [electronic resource] / Vandana Shiva ; foreword by Wendell Berry.
Author
Shiva, Vandana.
Publication
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 353 pages) : illustrations.
Series Statement
Culture of the land
Uniform Title
  • Vandana Shiva reader (Online)
  • Culture of the land.
Alternative Title
Vandana Shiva reader (Online)
Subject
  • Shiva, Vandana
  • Agricultural literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The gendered politics of food -- Science and politics in the green revolution -- The hijacking of the global food supply -- Hunger by design -- Monocultures of the mind -- Toward a new agriculture paradigm: health per acre -- Can life be made? Can life be owned? Redefining biodiversity -- The seed and the earth -- Seeds of suicide: the ecological and human costs of the globalization of agriculture -- Seed freedom: what is at stake -- Food and water -- Soil, not oil -- The GMO emperor has no clothes: genetic engineering is a failed technology.
LCCN
2014043937
OCLC
ssj0001382104
Author
Shiva, Vandana.
Title
The Vandana Shiva reader [electronic resource] / Vandana Shiva ; foreword by Wendell Berry.
Imprint
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Series
Culture of the land
Culture of the land.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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