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 […]
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 times: from 0.1 to 2.7 million tonnes. http://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-90161456/popsculture In Italy, pesticide residues were found in 67% […]
Living Seeds: Navdanya’s Community Seed Banks Farmers’ self-reliance based on biodiversity intensive organic farming Women’s Food Sovereignty Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm Earth University: Navdanya’s Learning Center dedicated to education for sustainable living Download Pdf
La globalización empresarial, una guerra contra el planeta y las personas. Las fuerzas del mercado, los sistemas de recursos intensivos y de beneficios intensivos están creando caos en nuestro mundo, alterando los ecosistemas del planeta y los sistemas de la sociedad en términos de democracia, justicia y equidad. El cambio climático está erradicando comunidades enteras […]
1 What is glyphosate and why should I be concerned? Glyphosate is the active principle of the main herbicides used in agriculture. Since 1974 in the U.S., over 1.6 billion kilograms of glyphosate active ingredient have been used or 19% of estimated global use of glyphosate (8.6 billion kilograms). Globally, glyphosate use has risen almost […]
In just 100 years, the chemicals and technologies of war-based conglomerates, which produced and profited from the chemicals that killed millions of people during the two world wars, have continued their destruction, wiping out millions of species by spreading poisonous agrichemicals, destroying our fragile ecosystems, poisoning our soils and entire web of life, undermining every […]
The book creates awareness on healthy eating so that disease & hunger burdened in the Indian people is removed an India emerges as a strong nation based on Biodiversity organic farming a healthy people. The contributors of the book, all eminent expert from their field will be creating a think tank on the linkages between […]
The first batch of Monsanto Papers were published in early 2017. The dossier contained hundreds of internal emails of Monsanto, as well as its correspondence with US Federal Agencies, the content of which revealed the magnitude of collusion between Monsanto and the EPA in order to undermine the investigation of the potential hazard of Glyphosate […]