By Nadia El-Hage Scialabba – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019  «First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.» (Mahatma Gandhi)   Introduction  Purpose. This chapter reviews the state of affairs in food and […]

The report brings together international experts and gathers evidence of global resistance against the industrial agrifood system, as well as examples of good ecological practices among farmers, local communities and civil society organizations, as part of Navdanya International’s campaign for Poison-free Food and Farming. In continuation of the work of the International Commission on the […]

Seed is the basis of food and agriculture. Seed Sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic […]

Biodiversity for a Healthy Planet and Healthy People Extract from the Manifesto Food for Health – Cultivating Biodiversity, Cultivating Health Graphic Project: Navdanya International Design & Print: PRINTFORCE First edition, March 2019 Download Pdf

The Food for Health Manifesto aims to give voice, hope and future to all those who wish to commit themselves to act and consume in keeping with a new sustainable food for health paradigm. Additionally, this Manifesto is intended to be used as a tool to help mobilize the urgent  transition to local, ecological and diversified […]

El Manifiesto muestra como las emergencias y las crisis de nuestro tiempo están interconectadas y no pueden ser afrontadas separadamente: el suelo, la tierra, el acaparamiento de las tierras, la agricultura, el cambio climático, la desocupación, el crecimiento de la desigualdad, la violencia y las guerras. el Manifiesto indica un cambio de paradigma para una […]

Compromiso para Evitar la Sexta Extinción Masiva y la Catástrofe Climática a través de Comunidades Órgánicas Sin Veneno, Sin Combustibles Fósiles – Las señales son fuertes y claras. Desde la Tierra. Desde diversas especies. Desde los insectos. Desde la ciencia. Desde las mujeres. Desde los niños. Desde las comunidades indígenas. Desde el aumento de las […]

The transition towards local, ecological and diverse food systems is a social, economic and democratic imperative  Civic actions Save grow and reproduce traditional seed varieties to safeguard biodiversity. They need to be saved not as museum pieces in germplasm banks, but in living Seed Banks as a basis of a health care system Grow Gardens […]

Our Food Systems are collapsing ecologically, socially and financially: an agroecological alternative  has become a survival imperative. Download Pdf Navdanya presents new evidence on the imminent collapse of our food systems – ecologically, socially and financially, if we continue on the path of industrial agriculture, based on chemicals, monocultures and corporate control of food and […]

Hamari Roti, Hamari Aazadi Our Bread,Our Freedom Diverse Women of the World Resolve to Defend Biological and Cultural Diversity, through Non-violence, Love and Friendship Bread is food, and has been a symbol freedom across cultures. Across cultures we pray Give us our daily bread. The slogan of Le pain est le droit du peuple (Bread […]