We can plant a seed
A Poem by Nnimmo Bassey | Source We can plant a seed Way back yesterday In the glow of nighttime fires We sat around steamy bowls Carving up mounds of foo foo Then dipping our hands in hot soups...
Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and more sign global call-to-arms on climate emergency
Extinction Rebellion,10 December 2018 | Source 100 eminent people from around the globe, including Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Chris Packham, Lily Cole, Bill McKibben, Dr Rowan Williams plus Bill Ripple of Scientists Warning have signed an open...
Global climate coalition issues COP24 demands, calls for an end to corporate capture
Navdanya International joins the call from more than a quarter million people and more than 350 organizations from around the globe, for real, just climate solutions from 2018’s UNFCCC COP24 climate talks. www.peoplesdemands.org #PeoplesDemands In first action at COP24,...
Europeans join forces calling for a higher level of protection from pesticides
Navdanya International joins Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation, the coalition of over 110 Civil Society Organisations calling for a more rigorous implementation of EU standards in pesticides regulation. The new coalition is calling for a reform of the...
Open Letter to EU Commission to support international moratorium on Gene Drives
Navdanya International joins 20+ European organisations calling upon the European Commission to support an international moratorium on the release into the environment of organisms modified by gene drive technology. OPEN LETTER TO COMMISSIONER VELLA AND COMMISSIONER ANDRIUKAITIS Position of...
A Call to Protect Food Systems from Genetic Extinction Technology
Navdanya International supports the international call by global food leaders & movements for a moratorium on Gene Drives
The Global Food and Agriculture Movement Says NO to Release of Gene Drives
Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected
To ensure fair access, innovation and competition in agriculture the Bayer-Monsanto merger must be stopped | Source
A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement
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...
The EU and glyphosate: it’s time to put children’s health before pesticides
By Baskut Tuncak – The Guardian, 6 November 2017 | Source | italiano A pending decision on Monsanto’s ubiquitous weedkiller is a crucial opportunity to protect our children from the toxic cocktail of pesticides polluting their food, water and...
Five more years of Glyphosate: The European Parliament does not take Citizens’ interest into account
Press Release – #StopGlifosato Coalition | italiano The European Parliament has not considered the request coming from civil society.