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 Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International Intensive monocultures of hazelnut groves are sweeping across Italian regions to meet growing corporate demand, while also feeding doubts regarding their environmental and economic sustainability. Organic providers, local governments, scientists and citizens are mobilizing...
Billions of dollars are invested in projects geared towards maintaining the status quo and flogging biotechnological solutions: Bill Gates’ philanthropic foundation has made sustainable development into an inexhaustible source of profit. By Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International Public subsidies, tax...
The industrial agriculture lobby is back on the offensive to avoid missing its opportunity with a second generation of GMOs, especially after Europe imposed strict rules on the first generation. Agribusiness’ main objective is to exempt new breeding techniques...
Jean Grossholtz Trusty friend and cherished colleague in arms, Jean was above all an intrepid free spirit whose direct and no nonsense approach instinctively made you feel her deep humanity and wise old soul. Co-founder of the Diverse Women...
An entire continent is being put under siege by western powers through a new face for a colonization no longer imposed through armies. Instead, the use of equally powerful weapons is being wielded – intellectual property laws, imposed on...
It is a black January for agribusiness lobbyists and stakeholders. Mexico, Peru and Tanzania closed the doors to GMOs, while the Italian government was pushed, by an extensive civil society campaign, not only to confirm the ban to the...
This January 7-13, 2021 Navdanya International participated in the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference. Although previously based in the UK, the now online conference brought together multiple food and farming movements and actors− ranging from farmers, activists, policy makers...
Twenty six farmers organisations, environmental movements and consumer associations in Italy collectively launched a powerful campaign this week, which prevented the government from passing 4 bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby. The bills were proposed by the Minister of...
Navdanya International invites passionate and committed individuals for an internship position starting February 2021 to support our work on promoting agroecological food systems, based on seed sovereignty, food sovereignty and the rights of small farmers and local communities. Navdanya...