The 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology, took place in Rome at FAO Headquarters from 3 – 5 April 2018. Navdanya International joined over 350 civil society organizations attending the Symposium, along with more than 700 participants and representatives of...
By Dr Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age, 22 March 2018 | Farmers and workers must disappear for “efficiency” of the machine and profits for the money machine. People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of...
Italiano The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. under the EU Merger Regulation. The merger is subject to corrective measures, such as the sale of a comprehensive package, which addresses the overlap of the parties...
To ensure fair access, innovation and competition in agriculture the Bayer-Monsanto merger must be stopped | Source
On March 18, Navdanya International took part in a Seed-Freedom Day at the Farmer’s Market, a concrete and positive example of creation of local and ecological agricultural and food networks.
The only responsible decision the European Union can make is to stop the Bayer-Monsanto merger. However, the latest updates from the European Commission don’t seem promising. The deadline for the verdict of the merger between Monsanto and Bayer (which...
By Allison Wilson, PhD – Independent Science News, 18 February 2018 | Source It was the first day of two weeks’ voting. The rural alpine municipality of Mals was about to consider a revolutionary possibility – a vote for...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 9 February 2018 | Source The same chemical industry that brings us toxics in agriculture also controls “modern medicine” based on pharmaceuticals. Across the world, there is an intense contest emerging...
Corporate strategies aimed at appropriating common goods were the subject of a series of conferences and debates with Dr. Vandana Shiva, held in Florence at the end of January 2018 and organized by Navdanya International in collaboration with local...
From 27 to 30 January 2018.