It takes a seed to make everything
The conference was held within the 1st Earth Festival in San Gimignano ‘Biodistretto’ Area, Teatro dei Leggieri, on 31st October 2015
SEED SATYAGRAHA (Civil Disobedience to end Seed Slavery)
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...
Sarson Satyagraha – Civil Disobedience against GMO Mustard
On 31st July 2015—we continued the Sarson Satyagraha that we had started in 1998. We gathered in Rajghat to take a pledge that we will protect our mustard. We invite every citizen who cares about their food, their health,...
Seed Freedom Global Report 2014
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...
Message for Mother Earth Day 2015
Making Peace with the Earth: Message for Mother Earth Day We are at war with the Earth through Industrial Agriculture. Industrial Agriculture accounts for the largest share of destruction of biodiversity, soil, water, and climate stability, through the use...
Biodiversity Or Gmos: Will the Future of Nutrition be in Women’s Hands or Under Corporate Control?
Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations. Monoculture industrial farming has taken the quality, taste...
Seed Freedom and Food Democracy
An Open letter to Prime Minister Modi and President Obama from democratic, concerned citizens of India and the US – We, as concerned and democratic citizens of India, and the US, welcome the coming together of two of the...
We Are All Seeds – A New Year Message from Dr. Vandana Shiva for 2015
“As 2015 has been declared the Year of Soils, let us recognize that in the seed and the soil we can find answers to every one of the crisis we are facing.” Vandana Shiva Subtitles available – click...
Setting the Record Straight On GMOs
Michael Specter’s story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva’s work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine’s usually high standards for fairness. Michael...