Organic is the future
By Sapna Gopal – Thirdpole.net, 29 January 2020 | Source Vandana Shiva, a pioneer of organic farming in India, is incensed by the 2019 draft law to compulsorily register all seeds used by farmers On...
Growing gardens of diversity, weaving garlands of love. What India can teach us about the value of otherness
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Lifegate, 17 January 2020 | Source Diversity is freedom, peace and sustainability. Through Indian history and society, Vandana Shiva tells us why the richer we all are in diversity, the more we’re evolved as...
Industrial Agriculture, based on War Technologies, continues to kill millions of species driving the sixth mass extinction: Agroecology is the Future
By Dr Vandana Shiva Statement issued on 6th August, Hiroshima Day On this day, 6 August 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which immediately killed 80,000 people with tens of thousands more dying later as a result...
Monsanto Does Not have a Patent on Bt Cotton Seeds
The Supreme Court Ruling Upheld India’s Law, not Monsanto’s False Claims on Patents on Seeds | By Dr Vandana Shiva, 9 January 2019 | Monsanto has spread the false claim in the media that on 8th January 2019 Supreme...
Our Food Systems are collapsing Ecologically, Socially and Financially
The Alternative of Agroecology has become a Survival Imperative Press Release New Delhi, November 19, 2018. Dr. Vandana Shiva presents in the report The Future of Our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse new evidence on the imminent collapse of...
A 100% organic model is possible: the example of Sikkim
"Together, we have a different vision, which safeguards biodiversity, territories, farming communities, local economies, democracy, through a transition to an agrifood system that respects the land, the natural evolution of biodiversity and the dignity of people and cultures", Dr...
Celebrating Biodiversity at Navdanya Farm
Doon Valley, 2 – 8 October 2018. For the last few days we have been celebrating Biodiversity at Navdanya. Amidst the heated context that India finds itself in with regard to the farmers’ crisis, the recent farmers’ protests, corporations...
Anna Swaraj: Movement to Stop Misleading & Unscientific Labelling Law that will Destroy India with Fake Food
Labeling rules framed by government are anti-national, anti-public health, anti-science and anti-democracy: Environmentalist and activist Vandana Shiva
Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides
By Dr Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age, 22 March 2018 | Farmers and workers must disappear for “efficiency” of the machine and profits for the money machine. People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of...