Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Resilience – How Biodiversity and Agroecology offer Solutions to Climate Change by Growing Living Carbon The last two centuries of dependence on fossil fuels has created multiple distortions in our view of the world,...
Genetic engineering was introduced with several promises, such as fixing nitrogen, resisting drought, improving yield and ‘feeding the world’, which have contributed to build up a multibillion-dollar industry now controlled by a handful of corporate giants. So far,...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 9 August 2017 | Source Ignoring the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee of the SC is, in effect, contempt of court.
By Ruchi Shroff – LifeGate, 1 August 2017 | Source If approved, GM mustard would become the first GMO to enter India’s food chain: this is why the fight doesn’t involve India alone but the whole world. Amidst the...
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 5 July 2017 | Source Indian civilisation is based on gratitude, to our farmers and all beings who contribute to our food. “Annadata Sukhibhava”. We believe in “Uttam – Kheti, Madhyam – Vyapar, Neech –...
By Ruchi Shroff, 29 June 2017 Amidst the desperate push by biotech lobbies to impose GM Mustard in India, Navdanya along with multiple civil society organizations is once again on the frontline to resist the GM Mustard. A herbicide...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 23 June 2017 Now farmers have started to awaken the nation to the farming crisis with strikes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
On this 5th of June – World Environment Day – Vandana Shiva reminds us that we are part of the Earth, and that we all have a duty to care for her future. Two centuries of fossil fuel driven...
If GMO mustard is approved, India as a democratic, sovereign country dies.
“ Navdanya with the National Women’s Alliance for Food Sovereignty (Mahila Anna Swaraj) started the Sarson Satyagraha to bring back our pure mustard oil. The first bottle of the Satyagraha Mustard Oil was gifted to the then Chief Minister...