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Ever since the Corporate Form was “invented” – in its earliest avatar as the collective East India Companies – those who have…
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”.
For more than a century, a poison cartel has experimented with and developed chemicals to kill people, first in Hitler’s concentration camps…
Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions,” and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb.”
The time is ripe for a planetary freedom movement that defends and protects the freedoms of all beings from this 0.01 percent
Golden rice is a false miracle. It is a disease of nutritionally empty monocultures offered as a cure for nutritional deficiency. In…
A recent report from the National Academy of Science of The United States, titled Gene Drives on the Horizon : Advancing Science,…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the new World Bank when it comes to using finances to influence policies in agriculture
Agro-biodiversity bolsters food security at many levels
A common question is: Why do farmers adopt Bt cotton which harms them? But farmers do not choose Bt cotton. They have to buy Bt cotton as all other choices are destroyed
Just because those who are destroying the planet and preventing our right to food have huge amounts of money, be guided by your conscience