{"id":12828,"date":"2019-11-12T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:21:18","slug":"vandana-shiva-2019-future-of-food-report-launch-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/es\/vandana-shiva-2019-future-of-food-report-launch-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandana Shiva : No to Junk Food in Schools, Yes to Climate Change Education in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDo we want to work in harmony with the laws of nature, or continue with the violence against the earth by eating food produced in laboratories and from an increasingly artificial agriculture?\u00a0 We want food which comes from <strong>an agriculture that cares for the earth, which provides the solution to the ecological climate and health crises<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 This was how <strong>Vandana Shiva<\/strong>, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/\"><strong>Navdanya International<\/strong><\/a>, opened the evening presentation of the new report \u201c<a href=\"\/?p=12610\"><strong>The Future of Food, Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, on Saturday 9 November in Florence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">El pase de diapositivas requiere JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-12828-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/navdanyainternational.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-11-09-at-20.57.05.jpeg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;12665&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;WhatsApp Image 2019-11-09 at 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campaign against food production alternatives, such as agroecology, fed by multinationals in the sector, using the same methods already denounced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jun\/02\/monsanto-manipulates-journalists-academics\">Monsanto Papers<\/a>, and involving <strong>so-called groups of scientists, uninformed parliamentarians and journalists<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00abIt is part of \u00a0the new neoliberal austerity \u2013 said Vandana Shiva &#8211; which impoverishes public information and then the multinationals come along and modify the information. We must take back the schools and minds of our children. And I am very happy that <strong>Italy has a very enlightened education minister<\/strong> who is standing up against junk foods and in favor of education on climate change in schools \u00ab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uuRNYpK7FQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Maria Grazia Mammuccini<\/strong>, \u00a0President of Federbio, affirmed the existence of a systematic attack on the practices of organic and biodynamic systems: \u00ab\u2026. there is a law now which gives structure to the organic food production system that has been attacked by the \u00abscientific\u00bb world that called for the blocking of this law, \u00a0behind which are animators linked to the multinationals \u00ab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadia El Hage Scialabba<\/strong>, international expert in food ecology with 30 years of experience at FAO and member of the International Commissiono on the Future of Food also noted \u00a0that the chemical industry&#8217;s attacks have characterized the history of organic farming over the past 30 years. She noted how the industry\u00a0 appropriates the terms, practices and visual images used for organic farming, and uses them to promote their own systems. She added: \u201cWhat we live today, and in a very violent way, is that every time the organic and biodynamic movement tries to move forward, we must defend ourselves from the accusation of being unscientific, when in reality we have a systemic approach that is more sophisticated than the reductionist one based on conventional agriculture \u00ab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhzcAH9diiM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bernardo Gozzini<\/strong>, climatologist and director of the Italian Lamma (weather) Consortium, cited the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/srccl\/\">IPCC report<\/a> on climate change and land use, which clearly shows the role of agriculture in greenhouse gas emissions. He also pointed out agriculture\u2019s dual role of either contributing to or mitigating climate change by either emitting GHGs or absorbing \u00a0carbon dioxide, depending on what type of agriculture is practiced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report \u201c<strong>The Future of Food, Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future<\/strong>\u201d, which brings together international experts, is freely available to download online.\u00a0 It first gathers evidence of global resistance against the industrial agri-food system.\u00a0 Second it gives examples of good ecological practices among farmers, local communities and civil society organizations, as part of Navdanya International\u2019s campaign for\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=5607\"><strong>Poison-free Food and Farming<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 and third, it provides a global perspective as continuation of the work of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/?page_id=508\">International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture<\/a>.\u00a0 In conclusion, it represents a milestone itn the analysis of the agro-food systems begun with the publication of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=4086\">Food for Health Manifesto<\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHdGDSX-wxY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the evening\u2019s event, \u00a0with the theme \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terranuova.it\/Agenda\/Incontri\/L-agricoltura-che-fa-bene-al-clima-incontro-con-Vandana-Shiva\">Agriculture that is good for the climate<\/a>\u00ab, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terranuovalibri.it\/libro\/dettaglio\/vandana-shiva\/agroecologia-e-crisi-climatica-9788866815112-236437.html\/?idsp=72\">Italian publication<\/a> of the new book co-authored by Vandana Shiva and Andre Leu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.it\/books\/about\/Biodiversity_Agroecology_Regenerative_Or.html?id=ShyhwgEACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">Biodiversity, agroecology, Regenerative Organic Agriculture<\/a>\u201d\u201d was also presented, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terranuova.it\/\">Terra Nuova Edizioni<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The book evidences that sustainable agricultural practices are the only solution to combat social inequalities and climate change, and guarantee food and water to all the inhabitants of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; 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