Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations. Monoculture industrial farming has taken the quality, taste...
An Open letter to Prime Minister Modi and President Obama from democratic, concerned citizens of India and the US – We, as concerned and democratic citizens of India, and the US, welcome the coming together of two of the...
“As 2015 has been declared the Year of Soils, let us recognize that in the seed and the soil we can find answers to every one of the crisis we are facing.” Vandana Shiva Subtitles available – click...
Michael Specter’s story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva’s work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine’s usually high standards for fairness. Michael...
Click on ‘Captions’ box to activate multi-lingual lyrics/subtitles “First the GMO industry said they would reduce chemical use through Bt-Ht GMOs that were supposed to control pests and weeds. Chemical use increased, and GMO Bt cotton is plagued by...
We are in Florence, in Piazza Santissima Annunziata for the Festival for Seed, Food and Earth Democracy, where associations, citizens, farmers and different realities, from different countries, have come together openly and creatively to strengthen the Global Alliance and...
Media Release On the 28th and the 29th of April, Florence will be hosting the Seed, Food and Earth Democracy Festival, with Vandana Shiva for a new economy. The Festival is one of the stages of the “Seed Caravan”, a traveling event...
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Common Dreams, 3 February 2014 | Source Pushing for genetically modified organisms is polluting our seed and food, our science and democracy. “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high...
“Seed freedom is Earth Rights … it is the right of the seed in all its diversity and self organization to evolve into the future.” Dr. Vandana Shiva, Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012 In country after country local, open source...
Common Dreams, 4 October 2012 | Source Vandana Shiva’s group, Navdanya, issues call to action in support of food security, seed sovereignty in new report. In a defiant step against corporate control over food sovereignty, activists issued a report...