Annam ‘Food as Health’
– Course of Navdanya For more information and registration email earthuniversity@navdanya.net ; +91 (0) 135-2693025 Bija Vidyapeeth – Earth University
The UN Food Systems Summit: How Not to Respond to the Urgency of Reform
By Michael Fakhri, Hilal Elver and Olivier De Schutter – IPS, 22 March 2021 | Source At a critical juncture on the road to the UN Food Systems Summit, three UN rights experts warn that it will fail to...
CSM Letter to the CFS Chair on Food Systems Summit
CSM Letter to the CFS Chair on Food Systems Summit – Add your organisation’s signature Download the letter Amb. Thanawat Tiensin Chair, UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Rome, 9 February 2021 Dear Chair,...
Webinar ‘GMOs are a failed Technology. The future is GMO-Free’ – Highlights
On 10 March 2021, Navdanya International organised a webinar – GMOs are a failed technology, The Future is GMO Free. As part of its Gates to A Global Empire campaign, this session brought together Dr. Vandana Shiva, President of...
Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss
UN Environment Programme, 3 February 2021 – Press Release | Source A new Chatham House report highlights that the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. Biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate, unless we change the way we produce food. Further destruction of ecosystems...
Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry
Hundreds of civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN agency to renounce planned alliance with CropLife International Rome, 19 November 2020 – Today 352 organizations in 63 countries representing hundreds of thousands of farmers, fisherfolk, agricultural...
Paper on Springer Nature – Development: “The Biodiversity Paradigm: Building Resilience for Human and Environmental Health”
© Society for International Development 2020 Cite: Shroff, R., Cortés, C.R. The Biodiversity Paradigm: Building Resilience for Human and Environmental Health. Development (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00260-2 Abstract It is a well-established fact that biodiversity is pivotal to human and planetary...
Technological Solutionism Will Not Save our Food Systems
Today, thanks to the Coronavirus crisis, the rotting of our current world structures has come further into evidence. The pandemic, compounded with an already ongoing climate and ecological crisis, as well as ballooning social inequalities, has placed us at...
Presentation of Navdanya International new Report ‘Gates to a Global Empire’ and the dangers of Philantro-capitalism
Press Release On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 a panel of fourteen of the co-authors of Navdanya International’s collaborative Citizens Report on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – “Gates to a Global Empire” – launched the report through an...
Gates to a Global Empire
over Seed, Food, Health, Knowledge …and the Earth – The report gathers evidence and throws light on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems, manipulating information...