Organic is the future
By Sapna Gopal – Thirdpole.net, 29 January 2020 | Source Vandana Shiva, a pioneer of organic farming in India, is incensed by the 2019 draft law to compulsorily register all seeds used by farmers On...
Rewilding food, rewilding farming
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Ecologist, 24th January 2020 | Source Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way. George Monbiot’s recent column, “Lab-grown...
Growing gardens of diversity, weaving garlands of love. What India can teach us about the value of otherness
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Lifegate, 17 january 2020 | Source Diversity is freedom, peace and sustainability. Through Indian history and society, Vandana Shiva tells us why the richer we all are in diversity, the more we’re evolved as...
Del Re and Belloni present the Premio Minerva to women
Photos kindly provided by Il Club delle Donne (The Women’s Club), if not otherwise specified Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 27 November 2019 | Source The Sala della Protomoteca of the Campidoglio, hosted the 30th edition of the “Premio...
Vandana Shiva : No to Junk Food in Schools, Yes to Climate Change Education in Schools
“Do we want to work in harmony with the laws of nature, or continue with the violence against the earth by eating food produced in laboratories and from an increasingly artificial agriculture? We want food which comes from an...
Navdanya International presents its new report on the future of food in Florence
Florence, 9 November 2019 Biblioteca delle Oblate, Via dell’Oriuolo 24, Florence – Free and open admission On 9 November, at 8:30 p.m., Navdanya International will present its new report “The Future of Food, Farming with Nature, Cultivating the Future“,...
Education and knowledge can stop the fake “science” of multinationals that is leading the planet and society to collapse
It is significant that at a time in history when a global economic paradigm shift is being loudly and clearly demanded due to the evident and documented failure of the current system of production, global trade and distribution that...
We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Truthout, 22 September 2019 | Source The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems...
“Poison-free, Fossil fuel-free Food & Farming Communities: 2030” – Panel at Heirloom Expo
Photo courtesy of California Guild The highlight of this year’s edition of the National Heirloom Expo (Santa Rosa, California, 10-12 September 2019) was a panel presentation on the health of the planet, chaired by Mary Jacob, President of Friends...
Industrial Agriculture, based on War Technologies, continues to kill millions of species driving the sixth mass extinction: Agroecology is the Future
By Dr Vandana Shiva Statement issued on 6th August, Hiroshima Day On this day, 6 August 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which immediately killed 80,000 people with tens of thousands more dying later as a result...