Road map: the route towards transformation
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 […]
The Future of our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse
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 […]
Diverse Women of the World Resolve to Defend Biological and Cultural Diversity through Non-violence
Hamari Roti, Hamari Aazadi Our Bread,Our Freedom Diverse Women of the World Resolve to Defend Biological and Cultural Diversity, through Non-violence, Love and Friendship Bread is food, and has been a symbol freedom across cultures. Across cultures we pray Give us our daily bread. The slogan of Le pain est le droit du peuple (Bread […]
Food for Health Fact-Sheet
Food for Health Manifesto: a few data – Environmental contaminants and pesticides More than 80,000 new chemicals and 20 million by-products have been on the market since World War II. Since 1945, global pesticide production has increased about 26 times: from 0.1 to 2.7 million tonnes. http://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-90161456/popsculture In Italy, pesticide residues were found in 67% […]
Leh Declaration – Earth Journey to Ladakh
“Today, 6th August 2018, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council joins hands with the government of Sikkim, Navdanya and LEHO in Mission Organic Himalaya 2030“ Leh Declaration, 6th August 2018 “While the Himalaya and Ladakh shape the climate of Asia, climate change driven by fossil fuel use over 200 years of industrialization is now changing the climate […]
Celebrating Biodiversity, Agroecology and Organic Food Systems
Living Seeds: Navdanya’s Community Seed Banks Farmers’ self-reliance based on biodiversity intensive organic farming Women’s Food Sovereignty Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm Earth University: Navdanya’s Learning Center dedicated to education for sustainable living Download Pdf
Indonesia: an Agroecology Mobilization
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 […]
Transitioning from Corporate Globalization to Economic Democracy
Economic Democracy = People, Nature, Environment, Work | Economic democracy is now a social, political, ecological imperative. Sowing the seeds of the future demands that we participate in democratically shaping our economies and our systems of production and consumption and replacing corporate monopolies with commons , competition between people with cooperation.
9 FAQ about pesticides
1 What is glyphosate and why should I be concerned? Glyphosate is the active principle of the main herbicides used in agriculture. Since 1974 in the U.S., over 1.6 billion kilograms of glyphosate active ingredient have been used or 19% of estimated global use of glyphosate (8.6 billion kilograms). Globally, glyphosate use has risen almost […]
The Poison Cartel – Fact Sheet
In just 100 years, the chemicals and technologies of war-based conglomerates, which produced and profited from the chemicals that killed millions of people during the two world wars, have continued their destruction, wiping out millions of species by spreading poisonous agrichemicals, destroying our fragile ecosystems, poisoning our soils and entire web of life, undermining every […]