By Salvatore Ceccarelli – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019  Orginally published in: Bioversity International (2019) Agrobiodiversity Index Report 2019: risk and resilience. Rome (Italy): Bioversity International 182 p. ISBN: 978-92-9255-125-4: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100820 – Reproduced with the author’s permission KEY MESSAGES: Crop diversity […]

By Nadia El-Hage Scialabba – Extract from Navdanya International Report The Future of Food – Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future – November 2019  « First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. » (Mahatma Gandhi)   Introduction  Purpose. This chapter reviews the state of affairs in food and […]

The report brings together international experts and gathers evidence of global resistance against the industrial agrifood system, as well as examples of good ecological practices among farmers, local communities and civil society organizations, as part of Navdanya International’s campaign for Poison-free Food and Farming. In continuation of the work of the International Commission on the […]

Seed is the basis of food and agriculture. Seed Sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic […]

Biodiversity for a Healthy Planet and Healthy People Extract from the Manifesto Food for Health – Cultivating Biodiversity, Cultivating Health Graphic Project: Navdanya International Design & Print: PRINTFORCE First edition, March 2019 Download Pdf

The Food for Health Manifesto aims to give voice, hope and future to all those who wish to commit themselves to act and consume in keeping with a new sustainable food for health paradigm. Additionally, this Manifesto is intended to be used as a tool to help mobilize the urgent  transition to local, ecological and diversified […]

Engagement pour éviter la Sixième Extinction de Masse et la Catastrophe Climatique grâce aux Communautés Biologiques, Sans Poison, et Sans Combustible Fossile – Les signes sont forts et clairs. De la Terre. De diverses espèces. Des insectes. De la science. Des femmes. Des enfants. De communautés indigènes. De l’augmentation des maladies dans nos vies quotidiennes. […]

The Manifesto identifies the false assumptions that are leading to the destruction of the foundations of our very existence and offers a new paradigm for a new Agriculture, a new Circular Economy towards a new Democracy based on justice, dignity, sustainability, and peace. Download our new Manifesto TERRA VIVA. Our soil, Our Commons, Our Future […]

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 […]