Book release On Health per acre: Organic solutions to hunger and malnutrition

Innovative solutions to the food crisis On 26th March 2011 Navdanya’s latest report “Health per Acre: Organic Solutions to Hunger and Malnutrition” by Dr Vandana Shiva and Dr Vaibhav Singh was released by Sayeda Hameed, Member of the Planning Commission. India is faced with a triple food crisis – an...

Navdanya organizes a Millets Festival at Dilli Haat

Millets, the nutritious, water prudent crops have been marginalized and called coarse and inferior grains. For the last 20 years, Navdanya has been conserving and promoting these forgotten foods. From 1st of Oct to 16th Oct (World Food Day) Navdanya has organized a millets festival to promote these precious foods...

Climate Conference on 17th November 09

National Conference on Climate Change in the Himalaya  Date: 17th November 2009 Venue The Auditorium, India International Center  Organizers Research Foundation For Science Technology and Ecology/ Navdanya in partnership with India International Center The Himalayan snows and rivers are the lifeline of half of humanity. The entire Indian civilisation rests on the...

Meetings

The World Food Summit is being organized in June this year in Rome, five years after the last Food Summit Five years after the last Food Summit, hunger and malnutrition has grown enormously, particularly in the third World countries. The public distribution system of these countries, which embodied their food...

Statement

1 October 2001 We, Diverse Women for Diversity (DWD) committed to a peaceful world, celebrate our differences. From our differences come our strengths. We come from all the continents, and from different cultures and races, and are united in our vision for peace and justice for the world today. We...

Campaigns

High Fructose Corn Syrup, Genetically Engineered Products and Corporate Control of Agriculture and Food are Causing Hunger, Poverty and the Epidemic of Obesity & Diabetes! Stop Food From Becoming A Health Hazard Diverse Women for Diversity has for many years worked to create a global women's movement for food security....

The Movement

A Southern initiative to build an international coalition of women to respond to globalisation and its impacts by creating diverse solutions at the local level and a common defence at the global level. The need for a global coalition to respond to globalisation Economic globalisation is sweeping across the world,...

About Navdanya

Navdanya means “nine seeds” (symbolizing protection of biological and cultural diversity) and also the “new gift” (for seed as commons, based on the right to save and share seeds In today’s context of biological and ecological destruction, seed savers are the true givers of seed. This gift or “dana” of Navadhanyas (nine seeds) is the ultimate gift – it is a gift of life, of heritage and continuity. Conserving seed is conserving biodiversity, conserving knowledge of the seed and its utilization, conserving culture, conserving sustainability.

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