MYTHS ABOUT INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE
Posted on Friday, September 7th, 2012
by Dr Vandana Shiva
Reports trying to create doubts aboutOrganic Agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, people are fed up of the corporate assault of toxics and GMOs. Secondly people are turning to organic agriculture and organic food as a way to end the toxic war against the Earth and our bodies. At a time when industry has set its eyes on the super profits to be harvested from seed monopolies through patented seeds and seeds engineered with toxic genes and genes for making crops resistant to herbicides, people are seeking food freedom through organic , nonindustrial food. The food revolution is the biggest revolution of our times, and industry is panicking. So it spins propaganda, hoping that in the footsteps of Goebbel, a lie told a hundred times will become the truth. But food is different. We are what we eat. We are our own barometers. Our farms and our bodies are our labs, and every farmer and every citizen is a scientist who knows best how bad farming and bad food hurts the land and our health, and how good farming and good food heals the planet and people
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.
The Health and Malnutrition Crisis, a Health Emergency: how should we respond?
Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The Hunger and Malnutrition Crisis, A Health Emergency:
How should we respond?
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.