Organic is the future
By Sapna Gopal – Thirdpole.net, 29 January 2020 | Source Vandana Shiva, a pioneer of organic farming in India, is incensed by the 2019 draft law to compulsorily register all seeds used by farmers On...
Rewilding food, rewilding farming
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Ecologist, 24 January 2020 | Source Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way. George Monbiot’s recent column, “Lab-grown...
Growing gardens of diversity, weaving garlands of love. What India can teach us about the value of otherness
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Lifegate, 17 January 2020 | Source Diversity is freedom, peace and sustainability. Through Indian history and society, Vandana Shiva tells us why the richer we all are in diversity, the more we’re evolved as...
A Knife to the Throat. Think before you dance to the GMO beat
By Nnimmo Bassey – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019 Orginally published in Earthy Tales, 2 August 2019 | Source A popular saying has it that...
Philippines: Farmer-scientist group condemns Golden Rice approval
Masipag, 19 December 2019 | Source In a sly move characteristic of the GM proponents including the various agencies in the Joint Department Circular (JDC), the direct use for food, feed and processing of the genetically modified (GM) Golden...
The sweet medicine of Agroecology for the bitter chemical sprayed monoculture
By: Fabian Pacheco Rodríguez, Master in Environmental Agrobiology and Ecological farmer, and Mauricio Alvarez Mora, Geographer and Master of Latin American Studies – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future...
Which future of food do we want?
By Navdanya International – Comune-info, 24 November 2019 | Source Navdanya International‘s annual report outlines the attacks of agro-business lobbies and the negative consequences that investments by large agro-industrial companies have on land, soil, biodiversity, human health and small...
Farmers, doctors, scientists, activists gather for ‘Food. Farming. Freedom’ conference
Tessdrive, 7 December 2019 | Source “Seeds are essential to agriculture because whoever controls the seed supply will affect the state of food and agriculture.” Thus say the organizers of the October 26 conference “Food. Farming. Freedom” or FFF....
Popular Resistance, Agroecology and Food Sovereignty in Brazil
By Murilo Mendonça Oliveira de Souza – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019 Brazilian agribusiness has established technical and political parameters to create a world-renowned model...
In Argentina we defend Seed Freedom as a human right
By Fernando Cabaleiro, Naturaleza de Derechos – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019 In Argentina, patent law does not allow plant patents. However, shortly after obtaining...