Science and Democracy
Posted on Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Science and Democracy
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Director, Navdanya
Green greed: Dr Vandana Shiva’s February column on the Asian Age
Posted on Sunday, March 4th, 2012
The world is faced not only with an economic meltdown but also an ecological one. Ecological limits and the universal values of human dignity and equality are being ruthlessly violated. Global financial institutions are asking troubled economies in the West to make adjustments in the face of the economic crisis. While adjustment is imperative, there are vital differences between the adjustment dictated by “one per cent”, that is the rich and the powerful, and the kind of adjustment demanded by the rest, the “99 per cent”. The rich would like to make the poor and working people pay for the adjustment. The populace, on the other hand, wants the rich to pay through higher taxes, like the Tobin tax on financial transactions, and through regulation aimed at stopping the robbery of natural resources and the commons.
Whose Foreign Hand is working in India
Posted on Saturday, February 25th, 2012
By Dr Vandana Shiva
The Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh has invoked the Foreign Hand that Indira Gandhi used to refer to explain the people’s resistance to hazardous technologies like Nuclear Power and Genetic Engineering. His comments have been published in the journal Science.
Create Food Democracy: Occupy the Food System
Posted on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Create Food Democracy: Occupy The Food System
By Dr Vandana Shiva, NAVDANYA
vandana@vandanashiva.com
The biggest corporate hijack on the planet is the hijack of the food system.And the costs of the corporate takeover of food has huge irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere.
Create Food Democracy: Occupy the Food System
Posted on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Create Food Democracy: Occupy The Food System
by Dr Vandana Shiva, NAVDANYA
vandana@vandanashiva.com
The biggest corporate hijack on the planet is the hijack of the food system.And the costs of the corporate takeover of food has huge irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere.
No therapy in retail
Posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2012
by Dr Vandana Shiva
In November 2011, when the UPA government announced in Parliament that it had cleared the entry of big retail chains like Wal-Mart and Tesco into India through 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail, it justified the decision saying that FDI in retail will boost food security and benefit farmers’ livelihoods. But the assurance that FDI in retail would ease inflation did not resolve the political crisis the government was facing; it deepened it. Parliament was stalled for several days of the Winter Session after which the government was forced to withdraw its decision.
Food Politics: How the present National Food Security Bill will deepen Food Insecurity
Posted on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
by Dr Vandana Shiva
The Food Insecurity context
With every 4th Indian Hungry, and every second Indian child severely malnourished and “wasted” Indian faces a major crises of food and nutrition security.
Monsanto Seed MoUs with Rajasthan Agricultural Universities Cancelled
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011
MONSANTO’S SEED MOU’s WITH RAJASTHAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES CANCELLED
Press Release
As announced by Dainik Bhaskar on November 8, 2011, The MOU’s of Monsanto and other Seed Companies with Rajasthan Agricultural Universities have been cancelled.
“The 99 per cent” Dr Vandana Shiva’s latest article on the Asian Age
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Nov 09, 2011
Vandana Shiva
On May 15, 2011, young people occupied the squares of the cities in Spain. They called themselves the “Indignados” — the indignant. I met them in Madrid where I was attending the meeting of the scientific committee that advises the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Their declaration states: “Who are we? We are the people; we have come here freely as volunteers. Why are we here? We are here because we want a new society that gives more priority to life than to economic interest.”
The GMO Emperor has no clothes featured on the Daily Mail
Posted on Friday, October 28th, 2011
“Super weeds ‘run rampant in fields near GM crops’, scientists warn”
By SEAN POULTER, The Daily Mail, 21st October 2011