Seeds are the repository of centuries of biological and cultural evolution
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist, and anti-globalisation author. Based in Delhi, she has written more than 20 books.
Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the anti-globalisation movement. She has argued in favor of many traditional practices, as in her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (Ranchor Prime). She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank, a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society, and the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights. She is also the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Shiva fights for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an award established by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and regarded as an "Alternative Nobel Prize”.
In the creative hands and minds of our farmers and artisans lie the freedom from fossil fuels which are destroying both the planet and the meaningful work
The same chemical industry that brings us toxics in agriculture also controls “modern medicine” based on pharmaceuticals
Two decades of corporate-driven globalization has destroyed the biodiversity and cultural diversity of our indigenous food systems, the health of people and the planet
In an era of climate change, rejuvenating and regenerating the soil through ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species
It is time to make a transition from corporate imperialism that is killing us, our farmers and life on earth, to earth democracy that sustains life
What we eat, how we grow the food we eat and how we distribute it will determine whether humanity survives or pushes itself and other species to extinction
We live in times where the non-working rent collectors and speculators have emerged as the richest billionaires
Ever since the Corporate Form was “invented” – in its earliest avatar as the collective East India Companies – those who have…
For more than a century, a poison cartel has experimented with and developed chemicals to kill people, first in Hitler’s concentration camps…
