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...
Philippines: Farmer-scientist group condemns Golden Rice approval
Masipag, 19 December 2019 | Source In a sly move characteristic of the GM proponents including the various agencies in the Joint Department Circular (JDC), the direct use for food, feed and processing of the genetically modified (GM) Golden...
Farmers, doctors, scientists, activists gather for ‘Food. Farming. Freedom’ conference
Tessdrive, 7 December 2019 | Source “Seeds are essential to agriculture because whoever controls the seed supply will affect the state of food and agriculture.” Thus say the organizers of the October 26 conference “Food. Farming. Freedom” or FFF....
Third World Profiteering by ‘Big Tech’ Plutocrats
Erin Go Bragh, 1 July 2019 Dr Vandana Shiva is an extraordinarily powerful and persuasive critic of Gates’ interference in the sovereignty of third world nations like India. In her most recent book, “Oneness and the 1 Percent” she...
Interview with Vandana Shiva
By Dario Ruggiero – Long Term Economy, 2 June 2019 | Source “SEEDS OF LIFE“ It’s 1 pm! It’s time to sit at the eating table and eat our preferred dish made of pasta, rice, vegetables or meat/diary-based products....
UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
United Nations, 6 May 2019 | Source Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history – and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark...
Vandana Shiva Talks Poison Cartel, Farmers’ Rights and Ecofeminism
By Melissa Pasanen – Seven Days Vermont, 3 May 2019 | Source Dr. Vandana Shiva, the high-profile organic agriculture and environmental activist and author from Delhi, India, will be in Vermont this weekend for two events at Sterling College...
The fight for life v Monsanto/Bayer AG
RT, On Contact with Chris Hedges, 31 March 2019 | Source This week Monsanto/Bayer AG was ordered by a California federal court to pay $80 million to Edwin Hardeman after a jury found its weed killer, Roundup, caused his...
Vandana Shiva: We Must Fight Back Against the 1 Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction
Democracy Now, 22 February 2019 | Source New research finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world’s most ambitious environmental reforms...
We can plant a seed
A Poem by Nnimmo Bassey | Source We can plant a seed Way back yesterday In the glow of nighttime fires We sat around steamy bowls Carving up mounds of foo foo Then dipping our hands in hot soups...