DECLARATION Seeding the Future of the Earth and Humanity Vasundhara Festival, Navdanya Biodiversity Farm, DehraDun, India 16 October 2024 PREAMBLE Food and agricultural systems have been spoiled by mechanistic science and voracious corporations; in fact, ecological degradation, infectious and non-communicable diseases, and the collapse of peasantry is under everybody’s eyes. Technologies first based on chemistry, […]
Full Report – Download Executive Summary – Download In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature. The financialization of nature continues the harmful legacy of bio-imperialism. These mechanisms, which include schemes like biodiversity credits and Nature Asset Companies (NACs), represent the latest attempt […]
Download Pdf On the occasion of the 28th Climate COP, Navdanya International presents “Regeneration is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate Crisis” There are two main paradigms of thinking of ourselves in the world and of our relationship with the Earth. We either think of ourselves as being separate from Nature […]
DOWNLOAD PDF To celebrate World Biodiversity Day, Navdanya International presents Biodiversity is Life. We break down how all levels of biodiversity have a direct and tangible tie to human health. Especially as an intimate connection exists between the biodiversity of our diets and gut, and our surrounding ecosystems, making health a continuum. Biodiversity is, hence, […]
Deforestation – Effects on Biodiversity – The Impact of Chemicals – The COP 26 – The False Promise of ‘Nature-based Solutions’ – The False Promise of Fake food – Carbon capture and net-zero – Geo-engineering – The Role of Biodiversity and Agroecological Systems – The climate emergency we face today is part of several interlocking […]
Author: Dr Vandana Shiva Earth care and the regeneration of biodiversity and living soil is the most effective and revolutionary Climate Action in times of extinction. The solutions to Food Crisis, Biodiversity Erosion and the Climate emergency lie in making peace with the Earth , recognising that the Earth is living, her biodiversity and biosphere […]
While the consciousness of the Earth as living, the awareness of the Rights of Mother Earth, and the movement of environment justice is growing, the dominant system is extending and deepening the false assumptions of Ecological and Human apartheid and Anthropocentrism. The 1 % is offering the disease as the cure. In an ecologically interconnected […]
Browse: Techno Fixes will not Save our Planet – The Imposition of a Failed Agriculture Model Global Commission on Adaptation – Breakthrough Energy Ventures: The Revolving Door for “Super Emitters” The False Promise of Fake Food – Biodiversity and Agroecology are True Solutions to Climate Change – Download pdf Techno Fixes will not Save […]
© 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 health, completely entwining biodiverse natural systems into a continuum, through our food systems, into human health. This […]
There are over 20,000 species of bee of which the domestic honey bee is just one. They are all pollinators and are responsible for the majority of crop pollination. [1] Most pollinators are wild but a few species of bees can be managed, such as honeybees (Apis mellifera, Apis cerana), some bumblebees and a few […]