This beautiful planet that has evolved over 4-5 billion years and sustained humanity for 200,000 years is now poisoned and polluted and its biodiversity is being pirated and plundered at rates that threaten the very existence of our species.

As an offering to The Year of the Pulses and to commemorate the 30th anniversary year of Navdanya, we bring you Pulse of Life, the Rich Biodiversity of Edible Legumes. The book is our response to the spread of monocultures through chemical, industrial and unfair farming systems, which have destroyed our food systems, our farmers, […]

TERRA VIVA, EARTH DEMOCRACY A people’s pact to protect the planet & each other Sign the Pact here

Through imposing laws related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) & patents on seed which deny farmers and gardner the right to save and share seed, our diversity, freedoms and right to health are being criminalised. Higher laws that flow from the laws of the Earth, reaffirmed by the laws of our humanity, compel us to […]

Open letter to the Sardinian society The letter shows that «Sardinians strongly request a change, being aware of the opportunity of life in a land still rich in biodiversity, despite the suffered damage and which can still get rid of big financial and economic powers. It can become a garden where the man and the […]

Today, the freedom of nature and culture to evolve is under violent and direct threat.The threat to seed freedom impacts the very fabric of human life and the life of the planet.Seed keepers, farmers and citizens around the world have joined together as a Global Citizens’ Movement for Seed Freedom to respond to this Seed […]

The book gives a deep insight on the way agriculture is done in India and on the food system prevailing. Any economic activity involves costs that are internal to the system, costs that are borne by the producer or by the consumer. Many economic activities have costs that are external to the system, costs that […]

We are in Florence, in Piazza Santissima Annunziata for the Festival for Seed, Food and Earth Democracy, where associations, citizens, farmers and different realities, from different countries, have come together openly and creatively to strengthen the Global Alliance and share future actions so that from our seeds and food may begin a new economy based […]

“Seed freedom is Earth Rights … it is the right of the seed in all its diversity and self organization to evolve into the future.” Dr. Vandana Shiva, Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012 In country after country local, open source seeds are being made illegal to establish a Monsanto monopoly on Seed and force GMOs and […]

Navdanya International published Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens’ Report in October 2012 as part of its international campaign to “alert people, communities, institutions and governments of the serious risk to the future of the world’s seed and food security and what must be done to reverse it.” The report was written through a participatory process […]