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Home > Calendar – Upcoming Actions > Earth Democracy, Earth University, Online meeting, Vandana Shiva > Staying Alive
19 agosto, 2022
15:00
Online, Online

Cultivating Hope in times of Chaostrophy

Course of Navdanya

with Dr Vandana Shiva

19 – 20 August 2022

For more information and registration email earthuniversity@navdanya.net ; +91 (0) 135-2693025

Bija Vidyapeeth – Earth University

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champions sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, food sovereignty and the rights of small farmers around the world.

Agriculture needs Science - But which Science? The Agriculture needs Science - But which Science? The debate around GMOs and New Genomic Techniques is too often framed as a choice between science and its absence. It isn't. Behind the dominant narrative around biotechnology, there are, in Salvatore Ceccarelli's own words, truths withheld even from policymakers. The real question is not whether agriculture needs science. It is “which science” we are talking about.

Ecology, medicine and genetics have long converged on a fundamental insight: diversity is the foundation of resilience, productivity and health. Yet for over a century, conventional plant breeding has moved in the opposite direction, and GMOs and NGTs are its latest expression. The alternative is not a rejection of science. It is a return to a deeper one: agrobiodiversity, crop diversity, intercropping, evolutionary populations. An approach with deep roots in agricultural history, confirmed by the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, and endorsed by thousands of independent studies. Drawn from an article by Salvatore Ceccarelli, agronomist, geneticist and pioneer of participatory and evolutionary plant breeding, published as part of our report "Seeds of Resistance: GMO Deregulation and Grassroots Mobilization". Link in bio.

#Agrobiodiversity #SeedSovereignty #GMOs #SeedsOfResistance #SalvatoreCeccarelli
Caring for wildlife means recognising that all lif Caring for wildlife means recognising that all life is interconnected. Within the project “Caring for the Earth is Caring for Life”, a workshop at the CRAS – Wildlife Rescue Centre of the Lake Vico Nature Reserve offered young people the chance to experience local wildlife first-hand and to meet those who care for injured and distressed animals every day. Starting from questions raised in the classroom and a strong sense of empathy towards animals, students explored how a rescue centre works and what concrete actions we can take to protect wild animals and their habitats. 

Prendersi cura della fauna selvatica significa riconoscere che ogni vita è connessa. Nel progetto “La cura della terra è cura della vita”, un workshop al CRAS – Centro Recupero Animali Selvatici della Riserva del Lago di Vico ha dato a ragazze e ragazzi l’occasione di entrare in contatto diretto con gli animali selvatici del territorio e con chi se ne prende cura ogni giorno, scoprendo come funziona un centro di recupero e quali azioni concrete possiamo mettere in campo per proteggere gli animali e i loro habitat. 

#CaringForTheEarth #CaringForLife #wildlife #biodiversity #ecologicaleducation 

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Water is life, not a commodity. On World Water Day Water is life, not a commodity.
On World Water Day 2026, water must be addressed as a human right and a commons, not as a field for speculation and profit. The current water crisis is not only about physical scarcity, but about political and economic decisions that privatise sources, financialise water and sacrifice territories and communities.
The Blue Communities movement, initiated by Maude Barlow, the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project, shows that communities can reclaim water as a public, democratic responsibility, commit to phasing out bottled water, and defend rivers, aquifers and wetlands as living infrastructures for life and climate.
Udine, the first city in Italy to become a Blue Community, connects local struggles to a broader global movement for water justice. Linking water, climate, food systems and gender justice means recognising who bears the highest costs of contamination, droughts, floods and privatisation, and building alliances capable of changing the rules that generate these crises.
Defending water today is a political act. It means opposing extractivism, supporting regenerative agriculture, and rebuilding collective forms of care for our watersheds. Because water is life. And life is not for sale.

#WorldWaterDay #WaterIsLife #BlueCommunities  #WaterIsNotForSale

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Today, on World Planting Day, sowing is far more t Today, on World Planting Day, sowing is far more than a farming practice: it is a concrete step toward regenerating soils, water and biodiversity at a time when industrial agriculture continues to deplete natural resources and narrow the range of cultivated varieties.

Keeping seeds free, saved and grown by farming communities, is central to food sovereignty and to resisting the growing corporate grip on the seed supply. That grip is tightening through the deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs): governments worldwide are opening the door to gene-edited organisms without labelling, traceability or adequate risk assessment. The techniques may be new; the logic of seed privatisation is not.

Navdanya International's report "Seeds of Resistance: GMO Deregulation and Grassroots Mobilization" maps this expansion and the pushback on every continent: farmer networks, indigenous communities and food sovereignty movements demanding transparency, freedom of choice and precautionary principle.

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Oggi, Giornata Mondiale della Semina, ricordiamo che seminare è un atto concreto per rigenerare suoli, acqua e biodiversità, mentre l'agricoltura industriale consuma risorse e omologa le varietà coltivate.

Difendere semi liberi, custoditi e riprodotti dalle comunità contadine, significa rafforzare la sovranità alimentare e contrastare la concentrazione del controllo delle sementi in poche mani. Una concentrazione che oggi avanza su scala globale anche attraverso la deregolamentazione delle TEA (Tecniche di Evoluzione Assistita): governi di tutto il mondo aprono la strada a organismi da gene editing senza etichettatura, tracciabilità né valutazione dei rischi. Cambiano le tecniche, resta la stessa logica di privatizzazione dei semi.

Il rapporto di Navdanya International "Semi di Resistenza – Deregolamentazione degli OGM e mobilitazione popolare" documenta questa espansione e le resistenze in tutti i continenti: reti contadine, comunità indigene e movimenti per la sovranità alimentare che chiedono trasparenza, diritto di scelta e principio di precauzione.

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