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Recently Navdanya has started three new community seed banks 



Rajasthan



Jharkhand



Uttar Pradesh

For more than two decades Navdanya has been saving seeds. In 2009 Navdanya started a programme to start conserving and protecting indigenous cattle breed. India is home to rich animal diversity including the Sahiwal, Rathi, Gir, Tharparkar, Vechur, Ongol, Harlikar. 

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Navdanya believes in fair trade and just market. For us, nature, farmers and consumers are co-creators and co- producers. This partnership is necessary for care for the earth, justice for farmers and health of consumers.

Through Biodiversity Conservation, Navdanya is reclaiming and reinventing the market, changing it from......


In this course, Vandana Shiva will join us for a rare teaching week in the UK, to investigate Earth Democracy and how it can be brought to life through the concrete experience of her food movement Navdanya – a network founded to help farmers achieve seed and food sovereignty, now......


Navdanya in collaboration with India International Centre invites you to another year of participation in Navdanya's annual festival Bhoomi, based on Annapurna: Feeding the World, on the 1st of October, 2014 at the India International Centre.

 

The Right to Food is the natural right of all beings born on this planet.......


Speaking at the launch of the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the Energy and Resources Institute, Union minister of state for environment Prakash Javadekar said: “We have not said no to science. Nobody can say no to science.
Yes we have to take proper......


We people of Ladakh in the conference held at WAL conference hall in Leh on 11th of August 2014, reaffirm our commitment towards Organic Ladakh.

We are also committed to make all possible efforts to make Ladakh organic as a followup of the Thimphu declaration for the promotion of Agroecology in......


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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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