Indonesia is a country with complex dynamics, rich in diversity, both in biological and sociocultural terms, which is paying the price of the myopic subjugation to the dogmas of productivity, without realizing the damage caused by it to the environment and its inhabitants. Indonesia’s civil society, however, is beginning to realize the dangers on the […]
Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Resilience – How Biodiversity and Agroecology offer Solutions to Climate Change by Growing Living Carbon The last two centuries of dependence on fossil fuels has created multiple distortions in our view of the world, of our production and consumption systems, of our ideas of efficiency and productivity, of our ideas […]
Navdanya International co-organised, along with multiple civil society organizations, the Monsanto Tribunal and People’s Assembly which took place in The Hague from 14th to 16th October 2016.
This beautiful planet that has evolved over 4-5 billion years and sustained humanity for 200,000 years is now poisoned and polluted and its biodiversity is being pirated and plundered at rates that threaten the very existence of our species.
L’agricoltura industriale si basa sul consumo intensivo di combustibili fossili, impiegati per produrre fertilizzanti e pesticidi e per alimentare il sistema agricolo globale. Se è vero che le applicazioni della chimica e della meccanizzazione all’agricoltura hanno assicurato rese tali da soddisfare i fabbisogni alimentari di un numero enorme di persone, è altrettanto vero che negli […]
Lettera aperta alla società sarda Dalla lettera emerge che “il Popolo sardo chiede con decisione un cambiamento, è consapevole di avere la fortuna di abitare una terra ancora ricca di biodiversità, nonostante i danni già subiti, che può essere ancora sottratta ai poteri forti, per diventare un giardino dove l’uomo e la terra ritrovano l’armonia […]
The book gives a deep insight on the way agriculture is done in India and on the food system prevailing. Any economic activity involves costs that are internal to the system, costs that are borne by the producer or by the consumer. Many economic activities have costs that are external to the system, costs that […]
India is faced with a triple food crisis – an agrarian crisis, the tragic symptom of which is 250,000 farmers’ suicides, the rising food prices and food inflation and the hunger and malnutrition crisis. All three crises have common roots – a non sustainable, inefficient system of food production and the commodification of food. The […]
Il “Manifesto sul Futuro del Cibo” sviluppa approfonditamente i principi, in parte già esposti nella “Dichiarazione sui diritti globali al cibo”, sui quali fondare il passaggio a un sistema agricolo e alimentare ecologicamente e socialmente sostenibile, proponendo anche esempi concreti e positivi per la loro realizzazione. English (EN) | Italiano (IT) | Español (ES) | […]