Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author. She is often referred to as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva cites data allegedly demonstrating that today there are over 1400 pesticides that may enter the food system across the world.
Vandana Shiva was born in Dehradun, India. Her father was a conservator of forests, and her mother was a farmer with a love for nature.
Vandana Shiva has written and spoken extensively about advances in the fields of agriculture and food. Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, and genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has fought through activist campaigns. She has assisted grassroots organisations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria with opposition to advances in agricultural development via genetic engineering.t
She created Navdanya in 1991, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. Navdanya, which translates to “Nine Seeds” or “New Gift”, is an initiative of the RFSTE to educate farmers of the benefits of maintaining diverse and individualised crops rather than accepting offers from monoculture food producers. The initiative established over 40 seed banks across India to provide regional opportunities for diverse agriculture.
“And if we are able to make that leap from monocultures to diversity, from superiority to equality, from destruction as creation to co-creation in nonviolence, then humanity has a hope.”
Books: Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab, Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India, Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives, Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological and Third World Perspective, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge
Location: Delhi, India and traveling the world
Organization: Navdanya of India
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Website: https://www.navdanya.org/
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBciZhOOr-8
Video 2: https://vandanashivamovie.com
Video 3: At the Global Earth Repair Summit – 2022 – https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/healing-earth-vandana/
