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...
Deforestation – Effects on Biodiversity – The Impact of Chemicals – The COP 26 – The False Promise of ‘Nature-based Solutions’ – The False Promise of Fake food – Carbon capture and net-zero – Geo-engineering – The Role of...
Cop26 Coalition – November 2021 | Source Climate change already impacts and threatens billions of lives, with billions more on the line: it is those that have done the least to cause climate change that are most impacted, especially...
On October 29, 2021, Navdanya International hosted an online event “Regeneration for Climate Resilience – Will the COP26 still rely on False Solutions?”, with Dr. Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International, André Leu – International Director of Regeneration International, ...
In Honor of #WorldFoodDay2021 we are celebrating local, diverse, indigenous, and biodiverse foods and food systems and their capacity to regenerate the planet. Today, we underestimate the extraordinary biodiversity of plants and animals which the peasants of past centuries...
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 Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International – 24 September 2021 The establishment of an organic district throughout the agricultural territory of the Autonomous Province of Trento in order to protect health, the environment and biodiversity. This is the request of...
By Farida Akhter – The Business Standard, 22 September 2021 | Source The global actors in the food business are now busy finding or creating markets for industrial food products. Countries with a large population, where laws and regulatory...
Rome, Italy. 21 September 2021 Following the counter-mobilizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in July, which gathered more than 9,000 participants from all over the world, civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ groups continue to mobilize this week...
csm4cfs.org, 18 September 2021 | Source Confronting the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, climate chaos, increasing hunger and all forms of malnutrition, ecological destruction and multiple humanitarian crises, we, social movements, indigenous peoples’ articulations, non-governmental organizations, and academics assert our commitment...