Navdanya Earth University Courses 2021
Upcoming – From Water Wars to Water Peace: Ecological Solution to Water Emergency 1st to 3rd March 2021 Online Earth Democracy & Ecofeminism: The Creative Power of Nature & Women 6th to 8th March...
Navdanya International at Oxford Real Farming Global Conference – Highlights
This January 7-13, 2021 Navdanya International participated in the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference. Although previously based in the UK, the now online conference brought together multiple food and farming movements and actors− ranging from farmers, activists, policy makers...
Technological Solutionism Will Not Save our Food Systems
Navdanya International’s new report GATES TO A GLOBAL EMPIRE, along with a synthesis document, are available for free download at this link Today, thanks to the Coronavirus crisis, the rotting of our current world structures has come further...
A Treaty To Protect our Agricultural Biodiversity
An interview to Josè Esquinas-Alcazar, “father” of the International Treaty for Genetic Resources For centuries peasants have stored, selected, and exchanged seeds by keeping them in an evolutionary relationship with the surrounding environment. This is a heritage of humanity...
Poison Free: the successful alternative to the expansion of monocultures comes from local regions
There is a growing number of local authorities, citizens’ committees and independent researchers who are calling for a more environmentally friendly agricultural production model that respects the environment, the health of citizens, the beauty of landscapes and their cultural...
Food for health: the right to health is to live healthy lives
by Manlio Masucci, Navdanya International “It’s time for action”, says Vandana Shiva, who has gathered experts from all over the world to draft a Manifesto that will provide farmers, consumers, activists and civil society organizations with the basic tools...
Poisons mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity
“Protecting bees is an ecological duty, pushing them to extinction is an ecological crime. The threat to bees is a threat to humanity” By Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International “If the bee disappeared off the face of...
Women Activists from Latin America dialogue with Vandana Shiva
Let us all, in all our diversity, start articulating the Laws of Mother Earth from each of our particular cultures. Let us tell our stories, so that this richer story shapes the future and not the narrow pathetic story...
May Day Message from Dr Vandana Shiva
We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously. The first is the Corona Pandemic. The second is the Hunger Pandemic. The third is Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. The Corona pandemic has infected 3.19M and killed 228,000. The World Food Programme...
Making peace with the Earth. 500 organisations urge a sustainable new start
By Manlio Masucci – Lifegate, 23 aprile 2020 | Source The Covid-19 pandemic is a planetary wake-up call from the Earth to humanity. On Earth Day, over 500 organisations launched a global call for urgent action with the health...