By Dr Vandana Shiva Sri Lanka, Serendip, the jewel in the Indian Ocean is facing a severe political and economic crisis. The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the last 2 years with Covid, Climate change, the...
How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? In response to the crises in our food system we are witnessing the rise of technological solutions that aim to replace animal products and other...
By Dr Vandana Shiva India is today the oldest living agrarian civilization. Indian farmers constitute some 20-25% of all peasant farmers in the world. Every freedom struggle of India has been peasant led, from the 1857 uprising against the...
By Dr Vandana Shiva The Earth is Living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia because they have understood that she is living. The...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Jivad, Vandana Shiva’s Blog, 14 August 2021 | Source One Earth, One Health The Industrial agriculture model is based on violence and war -war against the earth and against our bodies. It has created...
The Poison Cartel is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger – By Dr Vandana Shiva, 1st August 2021 – Pachamama Day The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her...
Statement by Dr Vandana Shiva The ongoing attempt by large economic and political interest groups to occupy democratic spaces must be stopped. The Food Summit and the G20 have become opportunities for corporations to assert their power over both...
Over five decades I have witnessed how food imperialism is at the root of violence against the Earth and against women. In India, wherever industrial agriculture has displaced women, women have been reduced to a disposable sex and female...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Deccan Herald, 2 January 2021 | Source We call rice ‘Akshat’ — the permanent, everlasting, unbroken, undamaged, whole. India is the centre of diversity of rice. From one wild grass Oryza Sativa, Indian peasants...
By Dr Vandana Shiva We have known for some time by now, from far before the virus that is running rampant across the globe started to spread panic across half of the planet, that the survival of our species...