Public Conference in Florence: Food for Health
16 May 2018, Palazzo Budini Gattai, Piazza Santissima Annunziata, 1.
A victory for ‘seed freedom’
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 2 May 2018 | Source Seeds are the repository of centuries of biological and cultural evolution.The duty to save seeds and defend seed freedom — Bija Swaraj — is an ethical...
An Agro-Ecological Transition to Beat the Diktats of the Green Revolution
By Ruchi Shroff, Navdanya International - Lifegate, 27 April 2018 | A transition towards agroecology is needed to beat the diktats of a production model that is poisoning our Planet and our lives.
International Biodiversity Congress – Navdanya, October 2018
Registration is now open for the International Biodiversity Congress, which will take place in Dehradun, India, from 4 – 6 October 2018. Click here for details. The Congress is being organised as a joint initiative of Navdanya, Centre for...
An Agroecological Transition is Necessary to Achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals
By Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International, 17 April 2018 Agroecology has proved to be capable of “reintroducing diversity on farms, strengthening local food systems, valuing traditional knowledge, ensuring equity and access to land and economic resources and respecting the multiple...
2nd Olympic Seed Freedom Festival
From 12-14 of April 2018, Navdanya, together with multiple civil society organizations, farmers, seed keepers and around 6,000 visitors, joined the 2nd Olympic Seed Freedom Festival, organized with Peliti in the area of Paranesti (Drama), in Northern Greece. Link...
Navdanya at FAO 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology
The 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology, took place in Rome at FAO Headquarters from 3 – 5 April 2018. Navdanya International joined over 350 civil society organizations attending the Symposium, along with more than 700 participants and representatives of...
Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides
By Dr Vandana Shiva - The Asian Age, 22 March 2018 | Farmers and workers must disappear for “efficiency” of the machine and profits for the money machine. People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of...
EU approves Bayer-Monsanto merger without assessing the risks exposed by civil society’s representatives, small and medium-sized producers and consumers
Italiano The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. under the EU Merger Regulation. The merger is subject to corrective measures, such as the sale of a comprehensive package, which addresses the overlap of the parties...
Open letter from civil society calling for the Bayer-Monsanto merger to be rejected
To ensure fair access, innovation and competition in agriculture the Bayer-Monsanto merger must be stopped | Source