{"id":356,"date":"2018-03-13T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T09:36:06","slug":"corporate-free-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/key-issues\/corporate-free-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Control and Economic Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f9lq-uBdxg8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Transitioning from Corporate Globalization to Economic Democracy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>A Manifesto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Corporate globalisation is a war against the planet and people<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Market forces, resource intensive and profit intensive systems are creating havoc in our world, disrupting the planet\u2019s ecosystems and society\u2019s systems of democracy, justice and equality.\u00a0 Climate change, is wiping out entire communities and earth\u2019s life-sustaining biodiversity, threatening the freedom of diverse species and diverse cultures to evolve.\u00a0 Species have disappeared at 1000 times the natural rate as monocultures and toxic chemicals are globalized through industrial agriculture. \u00a0Water is disappearing, and soils are being desertified, driving communities and people off their land.\u00a0 \u00a0Non communicable chronic diseases are emerging in epidemic proportions as our body is denied its essential biodiversity-based nutrition , and our vital gut micro-biome is assaulted by toxics. \u00a0The freedom of diverse species and diverse cultures to evolve is being threatened by greed and the extractive society and the totalitarian tendencies that hold it in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This path is leading us to eventual self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Economy as a subset of ecology and society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economy is derived from Oikos which means home. Ecology is the science of the household, economy the management.\u00a0 \u00a0Trade is the subset of economy, the economy is a subset of ecology and society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Corporate globalisation has put corporate profits above people and the planet, and reduced Earth\u2019s home economy to the corporate economy.\u00a0 \u00a0Greed, corporate globalisation and free trade are producing a sick planet, dying democracies and dying economies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governments, corporations and financial institutions are hiding this sick economy behind false measures.\u00a0\u00a0 Chemicals, derived from war, are being spread around the world through industrial farming, destroying the planet and contaminating our bodies.\u00a0 \u2018Growth\u2019 is used as a measure of the health of the economy \u2013 \u00a0an anonymous figure which tells us nothing in real terms of wellbeing and is used to justify the destruction of species and people\u2019s lives. \u00a0\u00a0It is a calculation of a fiction which is\u00a0 based on commodification and commercialization of everything that is life.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0GDP is based on the assumption that if you produce what you consume, you don\u2019t produce. Thus the real circular economies that sustain nature and society are reduced to zero.\u00a0 GDP is based on extracting resources from nature and wealth from society.\u00a0 This extraction creates the illusion that corporations, by extracting from nature and society and trading in goods and services which others have produced, are the \u2018creators\u2019 of what society needs and without them our needs will not be met.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The polarisation of society between the 1% and 99% is a symptom of the economic war against society.\u00a0\u00a0 The 1% now controls 82% of the economy, robbing the rest of humanity of their rights and their share to the planet\u2019s resources, societies\u2019 wealth, livelihoods and basic needs. This system of \u00a0theft from the 99% \u00a0is built into the rules of corporate globalisation written by the controlling corporations for their unfettered profits and undermine all democratic systems that ensure justice and equality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Free trade and corporate globalisation are based on privatising public goods, enclosing our commons, dismantling welfare systems and dismantling regulatory processes created for the protection of nature, workers, and vulnerable groups. They are based on the subversion of democracy. \u2018Free market democracy\u2019 is an oxymoron which really means complete freedom for corporations and no democratic rights for people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When globalisation was imposed on the world in the name of free trade, leaders created the illusion that it would close the gap between rich and poor and create equality. They proclaimed free trade was like &#8220;a rising tide which lifts all boats&#8221;. \u00a0Instead, corporate globalisation has created a steady \u00a0tsunami that has wiped away small businesses, small farmers, small communities, local economies and local and national democracies everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This greed based polarised economy and free trade system has also divided society along lines of religion, race, gender, a convenient tool that is distracting the public from the absence of common good and institutionalising a divide and rule policy based on violence. \u00a0Women and the most vulnerable bear the brunt of this violence through displacement because of war, climate change and competing interests in land and resources control.\u00a0 \u00a0This covers the spectrum of climate refugees, war refugees, economic refugees, farmers, unemployed youth, small artisans, all of which the billionaire 1% class is now labelling the 99% of \u2018useless\u2019 people. These globalisers are also \u2018pink washing\u2019 and justifying their greed by claiming that free trade empowers women and promotes feminism, the latest illusion to come out of the WTO conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 1% does not represent society, economy or democracy. They only represent their limitless urge for profit, accumulation, extraction, and dominate and control. The levels of wealth accumulated through illegitimate means and writing the rules of trade and economy in violation of all democratic imperatives is now a cancer in society threatening the very systems it feeds on.\u00a0 Only the cancer cell does not know when to stop growing. \u00a0All living systems from the tiniest microbe and cell to the largest mammal and the planet as a whole are self organised systems and are regulated to maintain their health and wellbeing. \u00a0Regulation is vital to democratic and living systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Economic democracy is now a social, political, ecological imperative<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Sowing the seeds of the future demands that we participate in democratically shaping our economies and our systems of production and consumption, replacing competition with cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this manual we invite you to participate in the decisions that shape our lives and take back our power to stop the present destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Principles for economic democracy include,<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>The right and duty to protect people and the planet, our ecosystems, society and democracy.<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0<em>Globalisation and free trade have robbed us of our right and duty to protect\u00a0 under the label of \u201cprotectionism\u201d allowing corporations to label our rights and duties to protect as an offense against their right to greed and profit.\u00a0 Corporations have invented the word \u201cprotectionism\u201d as a corporate ploy to subvert economic democracy.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>The promotion, protection and practice of diversity : biological, cultural, economic, political, and knowledge for flourishing local and creative economies.<\/strong> <em>\u00a0Mechanistic, reductionist and linear systems of thought and action, undermine life\u2019s intelligence, creativity, caring and knowledge.<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Defending, reclaiming and rejuvenating the commons as the common good and reversing all enclosures imposed by corporations. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>These include nature\u2019s commons such as biodiversity, water, atmosphere, soils, our food, our health<em>.\u00a0 The commercialization of the commons for corporate profits and market trading is a symptom of a competitive system of unfettered corporate greed.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Reclaiming, recovery, and rejuvenating local <\/strong><strong>economies based on subsidiarity, through<\/strong><strong> localisation and decentralisation <\/strong>to reduce the ecological foot print, increase economic opportunities and\u00a0wellbeing of people and communities, and enhancing community cohesion &#8211; <em>a reversal of the present undemocratic imposition of globalisation, centralisation and concentration<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Reclaiming national economic sovereignty based on democracy from the ground up through coherent local economic sovereignties, to promote the common good &#8211; <\/strong>vital for the prevention of the violence and destruction that is being fuelled<em> through the rise of cultural nationalism based on the policy of divide and rule, and corporations\u2019 free hand to control the national space, including suing government, leading to the subversion of democratic rule.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>A sustainable planet is based on ecological circular economies, \u00a0<\/strong><strong>supplying the needs of all within the parameters of the planet\u2019s health.<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Non sustainability is based on linear extraction and competition, increasing pollution and waste.<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0<em>\u2018Greenwashing\u2019 terminology creates illusions, not sustainability.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Social justice and economic equality are based on circular economies where the opportunities to create wealth and share wealth are circulated in society.<\/strong> The objective of all economic activity is to enhance the wellbeing of the planet and people<em>. The flooding of \u201ccheap\u201d products and services is based on exploitation, extraction and externalisation of the true cost of the planet and people.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>All living systems, including people&#8217;s living economies and economic democracy are based on cooperation, sharing, sufficiency, mutuality, solidarity.<\/strong>\u00a0 Corporate control and greed is based on competition and commercialization of the commons, making communities compete for shrinking ecological, economic and political space, spreading insecurity and conflicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Everyone has a right to dignified and creative work and society has an obligation to protect and reward all work equitably with justice and fairness<\/strong>. <em>The deliberate destruction of work and rights of workers is at the heart of corporate globalisation.\u00a0\u00a0 Corporations are imagining a world without work and defining the 99% as useless people.\u00a0 This future is no future in democracy.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>People\u2019s real work and real knowledge are central to rejuvenating the earth and society<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Resistance Actions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4197\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008-640x478.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008-450x336.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/41-image008-200x149.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citizens\u2019 movements from across the world have taken a stand against this <strong>increasingly<\/strong> <strong>wide corporate control and monopoly<\/strong>. One of the major global events organised by Navdanya International, along with multiple civil society organizations, was the <a href=\"http:\/\/peoplesassembly.net\/monsanto-tribunal-and-peoples-assembly-report\/\">People\u2019s Assembly at the Monsanto Tribunal<\/a> in The Hague in October 2016, which brought together diverse movements from around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process of holding the <a href=\"\/?p=11521\">Poison Cartel<\/a> accountable for its crimes is the culmination of 30 years of scientific, legal, social, and political work by movements, concerned citizens and scientists. With the movement laying the ground for the tribunal, a parallel People\u2019s Assembly was created to allow for movements from across the world to gather together, sharing problems, political strategies and visions of the future for a sustainable agriculture, which led to the consolidation of a global alliance of organisations, groups and citizens\u2019 movements. The Monsanto Tribunal was a powerful tool in finally bringing the issue of ecocide to the centre of international discourse. It also \u00a0focused on the <strong>widening gap between international human rights law and corporate accountability<\/strong> noting that the legal provisions in place which protect investors\u2019 rights tend to undermine the capacity of nations to maintain policies, laws and practices protecting human and environmental rights.\u00a0\u00a0 The Judges underscore the <strong>need to assert the primacy of international human and environmental rights law<\/strong> in the international legal framework and concluded that urgent action needs to be taken by the UN to avoid that key questions be resolved by private tribunals operating entirely outside the international framework.\u00a0 Furthermore, the Tribunal reiterates that <strong>multinational enterprises should be held accountable for their actions<\/strong> and be subjected to the International Criminal Court jurisdiction in cases of infringement of fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4201\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3994\" height=\"2216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023.jpg 3994w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-640x355.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-900x499.jpg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-450x250.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-272x150.jpg 272w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-500x277.jpg 500w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image023-140x77.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3994px) 100vw, 3994px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navdanyainternational.it\/en\/campaigns-navdanya-international\/379-call-to-action-2017\">global mobilization continued<\/a> throughout 2017, and Navdanya International organised and co-organised <a href=\"http:\/\/seedfreedom.info\/events\/categories\/2017-peoples-assemblies\/\">multiple actions<\/a> with movements across the world converging in a new unity across diversity to end a century of ecocide and genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018 a <a href=\"\/?p=2754\">series of actions<\/a> were co-organised in Germany. It kicked off in D\u00fcsseldorf with the &#8220;March Against Monsanto, Bayer &amp; BASF&#8221; on May 19 and was followed, in Bonn, on May 24, by a press conference and a panel debate, organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifoam.bio\/\">IFOAM &#8211; Organics International<\/a> in cooperation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbgnetwork.org\/4.html\">Coalition Against BAYER-Dangers <\/a>and Navdanya International which included the participation of Dr. Vandana Shiva and Harald Ebner (B\u00fcndnis 90 \/ The Greens), member of the Bundestag \u2013 among others. Farmers movements, environmental groups, trade unions and students organizations converged on May 25 at a protest in front of the WCCB building in Bonn, where the annual Bayer\u2019s shareholders\u2019 meeting was held. CSO\u2019s representatives were also able to speak at the meeting inside the building.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4206\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-640x356.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-900x500.jpg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-450x250.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-272x150.jpg 272w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-500x277.jpg 500w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BeFunky-collage-140x77.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November 2018, a panel debate took place in Berlin:\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=2933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Visions for Agriculture 2050<\/strong><\/a>, with <strong>Vandana Shiva<\/strong>, president of Navdanya International and <strong>Norbert Lemken<\/strong>, head of the agriculture politics department of Bayer AG. The heated discussion centered mainly on the opposing views of the speakers. Norbert Lemken defined the discussion as \u201cchallenging\u201d. <strong>Dr Vandana Shiva stated<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> &#8220;Biodiversity is the web of life, weeds are food and pests are insects, if left in the right balance. The Poison Cartel which began with the extermination of humans in Hitler&#8217;s concentration camps, has today brought entire species to extinction. But there is much that we can do as individuals and communities. The defense of life in its vitality and diversity begins with saving one seed, planting one garden&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, Navdanya International actively joined the widespread opposition against <strong>Free Trade Agreements<\/strong> and worked with the Italian coalition led by <a href=\"https:\/\/stop-ttip-italia.net\/\">Stop TTIP Italia<\/a>, to put pressure on the Italian government not to ratify CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Europe and Canada).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4478\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PAG-17-2-1200-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October 2020, Navdanya International launched its\u00a0 collaborative Citizens Report on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation \u2013 \u201c<a href=\"\/?p=17609\">Gates to a Global Empire<\/a>\u201d . The Report gathers evidence and throws light on <strong>the dangers of philanthrocapitalism<\/strong>, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems, manipulating information and eroding our democracies. A panel of contributing authors presented the report through an <a href=\"\/?p=17867\">online conference<\/a>. Throughout the authors\u2019 presentations, we see how the same patterns of an aggressively imposed consensus through direct influence over all global development actors, repeat over and over again, and how technocratic solutionism, powered by an \u201cunholy alliance\u201d between the science and technology institutions, states, and big capital, are embodied by the Gates\u2019 Foundation and dangerously put into accelerated action through a philanthropic development.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hpuUygATOBQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Activities towards Economic Democracy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the course of 30 years, the work flowing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navdanya.org\/navdanyas-biodiversity-conservation-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/about-us-navdanya-international\/earth-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth University<\/a> has helped more than 200,000 hectare land to switch to organic and established the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"long-description\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5527 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-1024x683.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-640x427.jpg 640w, 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data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S95&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1447390461&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4266\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-640x427.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_4266-1024x683.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small><a href=\"https:\/\/seedfreedom.info\/navdanya-organises-women-of-india-organic-exhibition-with-ministry-of-women-and-child-welfare\/\"><em>Women of India Organic Exhibition 2015<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n.png 960w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-640x215.png 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-768x258.png 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-900x302.png 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-600x201.png 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-450x151.png 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-200x67.png 200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"322\" data-attachment-id=\"5532\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/key-issues\/corporate-free-future\/economic-democracy\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n.png\" data-orig-size=\"960,322\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n-640x215.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/27540669_1578330965537196_7943322681655969010_n.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Navdanya <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/navdanyacafe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organic Slow Food Restaurant and Cafe<\/a> in Dilli Haat, Delhi, serves traditional Indian dishes sourced from Navdanya\u2019s network of organic farmers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5523 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-1024x293.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-300x86.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-640x183.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-768x220.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-900x258.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-600x172.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-450x129.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-200x57.jpeg 200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"293\" data-attachment-id=\"5523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/key-issues\/corporate-free-future\/economic-democracy\/whatsapp-image-2018-12-10-at-8-10-19a-pm-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,293\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WhatsApp Image 2018-12-10 at 8.10.19a PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-640x183.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-12-10-at-8.10.19a-PM-1024x293.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Italy Navdanya International is working with\u00a0Regional Movements\u00a0 for creating Local Food Systems and social and inclusive economy networks based on economic democracy. In collaboration with a vibrant and very active network which is progressively consolidating in the area of Rome and Lazio Region, Navdanya International co-organized, in March 2018, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navdanyainternational.it\/it\/notizie-navdanya-international\/514-ioscelgokm0\">local campaign<\/a> in support and defence of farmers\u2019 markets, which resulted in fruitful connections with policy makers and representatives of ecological movements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4239\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-900x675.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-200x150.jpeg 200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" data-attachment-id=\"4239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/key-issues\/corporate-free-future\/economic-democracy\/whatsapp-image-2018-11-18-at-4-18-52-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WhatsApp Image 2018-11-18 at 4.18.52 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-640x480.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2018-11-18-at-4.18.52-PM-1024x768.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In November 2018, the Cultural Association of Sardinians in Rome (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittadellaltraeconomia.org\/\">ACRASE, Maria Lai<\/a>) and Navdanya International organized an <a href=\"\/?p=2799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a> dedicated to the themes: Food and Health (in Sardinian: Mandigu pro sa salude) and protection of Biodiversity. The event hosted debates and a Farmers\u2019 Market where associations, committees and producers from Sardinia and Lazio offered their healthy, local and biodiverse products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2519 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-300x296.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-640x630.jpg 640w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-200x197.jpg 200w, https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_.jpg 800w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" data-attachment-id=\"2519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/cause\/breads-of-freedom\/bof-2018-2019-800_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,788\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BOF 2018 2019 800_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_-640x630.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BOF-2018-2019-800_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our International and campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/seedfreedom.info\/campaign\/breads-of-freedom\/\"><b>Call to Action: Our Bread, Our Freedom<\/b><\/a> links the principles of our Food for Health campaign with biodiversity, agroecology and indigenous food systems. The focus of this campaign is the protection and promotion of traditional diets. We call our traditional diets and dishes our \u201cBreads of Freedom\u201d, which are at the heart of local food systems as the expression of a value chain that works for nature and for the health and dignity of people. They come from the varieties of our indigenous grains and staples, from biodiverse poison-free agriculture, from artisanal processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lOQzD6aEay4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vtuoi8Btkqk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFFH.ForumFairerHandel%2Fvideos%2F954155458074945%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitioning from Corporate Globalization to Economic Democracy &#8211; A Manifesto Corporate globalisation is a war against the planet and people Market forces, resource intensive and profit intensive systems are creating havoc in our world, disrupting the planet\u2019s ecosystems and society\u2019s systems of democracy, justice and equality.\u00a0 Climate change, is wiping out entire communities and earth\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4224,"parent":369,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thematic_area-corporate-free-future"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9KkNM-5K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29269,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/29269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}