The Vasundhara Festival recently convened farmers, activists, and representatives from India and around the world—including Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, and Australia—to honor biodiversity as the cornerstone of local economies, sustainable food systems, and cultural identity. The festival took...
By Dr Vandana Shiva This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring...
Navdanya wishes to all the diverse women around the globe, a colourful and joyful International Women’s Day and a Happy Holi. We invite you to join Navdanya in celebrating ecological Holi with Biodiversity based colours that will neither harm...
From March 2-8 2023, the Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm hosted the Diverse Women for Diversity Festival (DWD), a coming together of the international movement of Diverse Women for Diversity. Over 50 women activists, farmers, and researchers from more than...
The Failure of GMO Bt cotton and the continued success of Native Indigenous Cotton in India A Briefing Paper of RFSTE* based on a 35-year study in Vidarbha’s Cotton Suicide belt – Download Pdf India is a paradise of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
