Bhoomi 2017: Listening to the Mountains & Launch of Poison-free Food and Farming Campaign
On 1st October 2017, Navdanya launched the international campaign for Poison Free Food and Farming at Bhoomi Festival 2017 “Listening to the Mountains” in New Delhi, which was organised in collaboration with India International Centre. Communities in the Alps...
How agricultural chemicals are poisoning our world. And all the (false) myths about them
By Ruchi Shroff – Lifegate, 18 September 2017 | Source A world free from poisonous chemicals is possible. And it’s in our hands. The op-ed by the Director of Navdanya International, the organisation that protects nature, the Earth’s biodiversity...
Launch of the Report “The Toxic Story of RoundUp: Freedom from the Poison Cartel through Agroecology”
Press Release Santa Rosa, California, 5 September 2017: On the occasion of the 2017 National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, California, Dr Vandana Shiva, keynote speaker at the event, presented the latest report of Navdanya “The Toxic Story of...
Enough! Don’t allow GMO mustard
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 9 August 2017 | Source Ignoring the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee of the SC is, in effect, contempt of court.
The fight against GM mustard in India is crucial for the global war on GMOs
By Ruchi Shroff – LifeGate, 1 August 2017 | Source If approved, GM mustard would become the first GMO to enter India’s food chain: this is why the fight doesn’t involve India alone but the whole world. Amidst the...
Ruchi Shroff – Voices from Clim’Act Camp
Ruchi Shroff, of Navdanya International, held a workshop on «False Solutions to Climate Change» at the International camp on climate change, which took place in Rome on 11 July 2017. The camp was organized within the framework of the...
NO to CETA, we must save our farmers and keep water a public common good
Press Release Rome, 10 July 2017: Dr Vandana Shiva: “The Poison Cartel, hiding behind new trade agreements like CETA, is putting at risk the survival of farmers and the health of citizens and of the environment; the right to...
Food and farming: Two futures
By Dr. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 12 July 2017 | Source The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make “bread from air”. There are two distinct futures of...
The Farmers’ Crisis
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 5 July 2017 | Source Indian civilisation is based on gratitude, to our farmers and all beings who contribute to our food. “Annadata Sukhibhava”. We believe in “Uttam – Kheti, Madhyam – Vyapar, Neech –...