The Seed War
By Manlio Masucci (text and photos) – Navdanya International, 17 March 2020 From India to the rest of the world, corporations are trying to extend control over the first link of our food chain. Navdanya seed banks were created...
Launch of the process for the creation of a “Roman Hills » Biodistrict/Eco-Region (Biodistretto delle Colline e dei Castelli Romani)
To create a « Bio-district of Roman Hills » on the outskirts of Rome, the largest agricultural municipality in Europe. This is the aim of the organizing committee’s coordination group of the “Biodistretto delle Colline e dei Castelli Romani”, who presented...
An Agroecological Transformation to Tackle Climate Change
By Manlio Masucci – Navdanya International, 2 March 2020 Victims and culprits: the way we produce our food is responsible for a large share of the climate altering emissions Speaking of climate change, sometimes it feels like we are...
Alternative Nobel Prize winner Vandana Shiva supports European Citizens’ Initiative against Pesticides as its ‘godmother’
Der Bund Naturschtz, 21 January 2020 | Source Resistance against the use of pesticides in agriculture is spreading throughout Europe. The need to protect water, biodiversity and human health clashes with the interests of agrochemical companies. All over the...
« Another World is Possible » – Mobilization Tour in Germany
A series of events were organised in Germany from 17 – 21 January 2020, in collaboration with Colabora – Let’s work together, along with multiple local civil society movements, to promote the transition towards poison-free, climate resilient and organic...
Organic is the future
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...
Rewilding food, rewilding farming
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Ecologist, 24 January 2020 | Source Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way. George Monbiot’s recent column, “Lab-grown...
Growing gardens of diversity, weaving garlands of love. What India can teach us about the value of otherness
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...
A Knife to the Throat. Think before you dance to the GMO beat
By Nnimmo Bassey – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019 Orginally published in Earthy Tales, 2 August 2019 | Source A popular saying has it that...
Philippines: Farmer-scientist group condemns Golden Rice approval
Masipag, 19 December 2019 | Source In a sly move characteristic of the GM proponents including the various agencies in the Joint Department Circular (JDC), the direct use for food, feed and processing of the genetically modified (GM) Golden...