Women's indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation

Vandana Shiva argues that our capitalistic paradigm today has disintegrated the biodiversity of organisms and of women. Shiva stresses that women contribution and knowledge in different fields of food production and agriculture have been underlooked. This is related to the treatment of biodiversity as a monoculture and society's patriarchic approach. Women undestand and have a large role to play in biodiversity conservation.However,biotechnology today has destroyed biodiversity whereby natural occurences of seeds are being manipulated for the benefits of multinational coorporations. Thus, patents are stealing safe and healthy food from Third World Countries by interrupting the natural flow of creation.
Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-bechtel/lets-try-something-new-en_b_696059.html