Launch of “Stop Pesticides March” coordination task force in Italy
In December 2018, citizens’ committees of Italy, which are fighting pesticides contamination in the north if the country, gathered in Venice along with Navdanya International, Isde – International Society of Doctors for the Environment, Legambiente Verona and Aveprobi where...
Visions for Agriculture 2050 in Berlin
On Thursday the 29th of November 2018, the event “Visions for Agriculture 2050” took place in the historical cinema “Babylon” in Berlin-Mitte. It was an evening full of talks and images focused on the future of agriculture and two opposing...
PoWR: Faith for the Earth speech by Dr Vandana Shivaji (Nov 2018)
What do our faiths teach us we must do in the face of climate change and ecological degradation that threaten the very survival of our planet? Joining the renowned and eminent speakers at the World Parliament of Religions in...
Europeans join forces calling for a higher level of protection from pesticides
Navdanya International joins Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation, the coalition of over 110 Civil Society Organisations calling for a more rigorous implementation of EU standards in pesticides regulation. The new coalition is calling for a reform of the...
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...
International Biodiversity Congress
Celebrating Biodiversity with Navdanya 4 – 6 October 2018, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarkhand, India 4th October 2018 – Press Release A biodiverse organic Himalaya is possible and that is the vision Navdanya is working towards while joining forces...
Italian edition of “Food for Health” Manifesto launched in Bologna
Scientific research confirms the unsustainability of the high chemical input industrial agricultural model and lays the foundations for an ecological breakthrough
Food for Health Fact-Sheet
Food for Health Manifesto: a few data – Environmental contaminants and pesticides More than 80,000 new chemicals and 20 million by-products have been on the market since World War II. Since 1945, global pesticide production has increased about 26...