Articles by Prof. Vandana Shiva
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Regenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
12 Dec 2023 – Industrial agriculture sees the world as a machine, not as a self-organized living system, and has created devastation contributing to climate change. Our latest report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop28 in Dubai, analyzes the causes of climate change and the regenerative solutions vis-a-vis the false solutions by polluters.
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Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.
→ read full articleBeyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.
→ read full articleFreedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.
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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.
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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.
→ read full articleThe Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.
→ read full articleThe Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Our Mind & Rewilding the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Regenerating Biodiversity in our farms, forests, and our Gut Microbiome for Zero Hunger and Good – Mother Earth is self-organised. Mother Earth has created and sustained Diversity.
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“Carbon Capture” – Two World Views, Two Technology Paradigms, Two Economic Systems, Two Futures
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – The Earth is Living. She is Gaia, Pachamama, Vasundhara, Terra Madre. For indigenous cultures she is Mother Earth. Even scientists like James Lovelock call her Gaia because they have understood that she is living. The living Earth is a biological self organised self-regulated living system. She is auotopoietic. She has evolved her biodiversity and her complex biosphere over billions of years. Through the biosphere she creates and regulates her climate systems. The Earth’s living systems ,the “Gaian system”, self-regulates global temperature, atmospheric content, ocean salinity, thus maintaining the infrastructure for life to persist and evolve .
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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.
→ read full articleSowing Seeds of Freedom from Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – The Industrial agriculture model is based on violence and war–war against the earth and against our bodies. It has created structural hunger, malnutrition and disease… Our work has shown that we can address both SDG 2 on zero hunger and SDG 3 on good health and wellbeing for all by regenerating and cultivating biodiversity in our minds, on our farms, in our gut. How we grow our food, and what we eat, is the single biggest change each of us can make to regenerate the earth.
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Future of Planetary and People’s Health
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
27 May 2021 – The Health and Climate Emergency are interconnected: Their common roots are an energy intensive, chemical intensive corporate controlled globalized food system that puts profits above people and planet. – A reflection on why we must avoid fake food, fake science , face economics which puts profits above people and planet.
→ read full articleEarth Democracy: Recognising the Rights of Nature, Respecting Human Rights
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – Earth Democracy is a world view, paradigm and practice that is based on the recognition that everything is interconnected, the Earth Is Living, the Earth has rights, that we have duties to care for the Earth , and regenerate her soil, seeds and biodiversity, her water and food systems. Our rights flow like a spring from our duties.
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Reclaim the Seed
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
3 Decades of Seed Satyagraha & Defense of Seed Freedom
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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Cry of the Himalaya: 4 Decades of Disasters, 4 Decades of Warning
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
8 Feb 2021 – The Himalayan disasters do not have local causes or local consequences. The melting of glaciers is a direct impact of fossil fuel industrialism , leading to Green House gas emissions and Climate Change. Every year Himalaya Glaciers are losing one and a half feet of snow.
→ read full articleBill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Stop the Machine and Defend Our Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Children's Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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Simplicity Revolution
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
World Simplicity Day 12 Jul 2020 – Simplicity Revolution: An ecological and ethical imperative to protect life on earth and ensure justice for all beings. The Corona Lockdown has forced us to shed the clutter and the speed and become an invitation to humanity to differentiate between the essential and non essential. In making us stay home, the crisis creates the possibility of realising that no matter who we are, where we are, we are members of one Earth Family and share a common home, our beautiful Earth.
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Jaivik Bharat
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
On 10th June 1947 at a prayer meeting Gandhi had said: “The first lesson we must learn is of self-help and self reliance. If we assimilated this lesson we shall at once free ourselves from disastrous dependence on foreign countries and ultimate bankruptcy. This is not said in arrogance but as a matter of fact. We are not a small place, dependent for this food supply upon outside help. We are a subcontinent, a nation of nearly 400 million (now 1.3 billion). We are a country of mighty rivers and a rich variety of agricultural land, with inexhaustibe cattle wealth …”
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The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Message for World Environment Day, 5 Jun 2020 – On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”…, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X. For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.
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World Bee Day: Poisons Mean Extinction for Bees and Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots.
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My Earth Journey
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
At the peak of the Corona Pandemic and in the midst of the Lock Down, on 26 March, Microsoft was granted the World Patent # WO 2020/060606 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Just as our Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge were “mined” — for patenting and Biopiracy, there is now an attempt to mine and pirate the data from our bodies and minds, without our permission and consent. Our humanity and autonomy are being stolen. We are being reduced to “users” of the “machines” which are extracting our humanity and our information to build the next stage of the mechanical, money machine.
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May Day Message
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
1 May 2020 – We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously: The Corona Pandemic, the Hunger Pandemic, and the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. We are One Humanity on One Planet. Autonomy, meaning, dignity, work, freedom, democracy are our birthright.
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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.
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Rewilding Food, Rewilding Farming
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Ecologist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
Dr Vandana Shiva argues that agroecology holds the key to solving the climate and ecological crisis in a just and equitable way.
→ read full articleEcological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .
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Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.
→ read full articleOikonomia: Bringing the Economy Back to the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Today’s Big Money is also anti nature. It is based on a paradigm of hyper anthropocentrism; of the continued assumption that nature is dead matter, and domination, conquest and control over the earth through violent tools and technologies is the “civilizing” mission of the men with Big Money. It is based on owing life though patents, privatization and enclosures of the commons, and the hubris of trying to engineer the planet through geo engineering.
→ read full articleMonsanto Is Not Gandhi: Crimes against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced that farmers will illegally plant Bt Brinjal as a “Satyagraha”. This is outright criminal action. Farmers acting on behest of Monsanto are criminals and will be treated as such.
→ read full articleIndustrial Agriculture, Based on War Technologies, Kills Millions of Species: Agroecology Is the Future
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
It Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction – Corporations of the Poison Cartel have given us decades of ecocide, genocide through war chemicals. As the alternative, Agroecology includes all chemical free ecological farming systems, including Organic Farming, Permaculture, Biodynamic Agriculture, and different schools of natural farming.
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We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity–an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems–that can meet all our needs and sustain life. We can repair the Earth’s ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.
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Satyagraha for a Sacred Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 October, Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary – Satyagraha for Life–Sowing the Seeds of Life and Freedom through the Power of Truth, Creativity and Nonviolence
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Seeds of Sustenance/Freedom vs. Seeds of Suicide/Surveillance
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Corporations that made war chemicals introduced these chemicals as agrichemicals. In the first Green Revolution they changed the seeds to adapt to chemicals. In the second Green Revolution they tried to own and control the seed itself through genetic engineering and patents. There is now an attempt to introduce the third Green Revolution with total control over the seed through the convergence of industrial breeding and surveillance digital technologies. What is at stake is our biodiversity and our freedom.
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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Prof. Vandana Shiva – YES! Magazine,
13 May 2019
3 May 2019 – My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
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Vandana Shiva on the Smallholder Farmers Who Feed the World
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Gaia Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
Opening of the We Feed the World exhibition in London, 11 Oct 2018.
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Saving Seeds at Home
Prof. Vandana Shiva | The Growing Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
Seed saving is one of the important skills that has been lost of the last century, and Dr. Shiva’s work to preserve heirloom seed varieties, encourage organic farming, and create food sovereignty is some of the most important work of our time. We hope you enjoy this video and will start saving seeds at home yourself.
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Monsanto-Bayer “Combination” – Comments Submitted to Competition Commission of India
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
20 Jan 2018 – I submit my comments and objections to the proposed combination between Bayer and Monsanto. The first part is substantive objections to the Bayer application in the context of the past and potential violations of the Competition Act, 2002. The Second part is my comments on the general impacts of the Bayer Monsanto merger for farmers rights, food security and sovereignty in India and globally.
→ read full article(Italiano) I big data non indicano niente – se non il disastro
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Il nostro cibo e la nostra agricoltura hanno due futuri diversi. Il primo porta in un vicolo cieco. Un pianeta morto. Diffusione di veleni e di monoculture chimiche. Contadini che si suicidano a causa dei debiti per i semi e i prodotti chimici. Bambini che muoiono per mancanza di cibo. Persone che muoiono di malattie croniche che si diffondono a causa di merci senza contenuto nutritivo o addirittura tossiche vendute come cibo. E devastazioni climatiche che spazzano via le condizioni per la vita dell’uomo sulla Terra. Il secondo porta al ringiovanimento del pianeta…
→ read full articleBig Data Doesn’t Add Up – Except to Disaster
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine,
13 Nov 2017
There are two distinct futures for our food and farming. One leads to a dead planet. Poisons and chemical monocultures spreading. Children dying for lack of food. People dying from chronic diseases spreading due to nutritionally empty, toxic commodities sold as food. The second future leads to the rejuvenation of the planet through rejuvenation of biodiversity, soils and water, rejuvenation of small farms, and diverse, healthy, fresh, ecological food for all.
→ read full article(Italiano) Seminare il futuro, seminare la libertà – un seme per volta
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
L’umanità si trova di fronte a un bivio della sua evoluzione. Possiamo scegliere la via dell’”Unità” (“Oneness”), consapevoli del nostro essere parte di Un Pianeta, di Una Umanità, e vivere celebrando le nostre molte diversità, interconnesse attraverso legami di compassione, interdipendenza, solidarietà. O…
→ read full articleSeeding the Future, Seeding Freedom, One Seed at a Time
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – Humanity stands at an evolutionary crossroad. We can consciously choose the path of Oneness – of our being part of One Planet, One Humanity, living and celebrating our many diversities, interconnected through bonds of compassion, interdependence, and solidarity. Or…
→ read full articleEnding a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Hundreds of People’s Assemblies, being organized everywhere, will make commitments to create a healthy future of food and of the planet. From the People’s Assemblies we will launch a boycott campaign, to liberate our seeds and soils, our communities and societies, our planet and ourselves, from poisons and the rule of the poison cartel.
→ read full articleGenetic Engineering (Part 1): #SCIENCE!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – A few weeks ago, global corporate PR decided to #RoundUp 107 Nobel Laureates in a bid to rescue #GoldenRice from its #Fantastic #Failure. Knights of the “pure science”, to the rescue of its Gold– the rice and a few “Scientists” even rising from the grave. Nobel – rooted in the Chemical Industry – has served as the Cathedral of Knowledge.
→ read full articleGenetic Engineering (Part 2): Cloned Chemical Colonies
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – The Gaia footprint of chemicals has depressed the life out of our planet. Nature is resilient; when pushed, nature pushes back. Nature evolves. Greed does not. Survival of the fittest?
→ read full articleFree People from the Standardised Dictatorship of the 0.01%
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms… They are trying to destroy our local food systems and replace them with industrial junk food by changing food and health safety as well as bio-safety, through ‘harmonisation’.
→ read full articleThe Great Seed Piracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
27 Jun 2016
16 Jun 2016 – A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations but also individuals like Bill Gates, the “richest man in the world”. Besides taking control of the seeds of farmers in CGIAR seed banks, Bill Gates (along with the Rockefeller Foundation) is investing heavily in collecting seeds from across the world and storing them in a facility in Svalbard in the Arctic — the ‘doomsday vault’.
→ read full articleMake Monsanto Pay
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
7 Mar 2016
Herbicide tolerance, which goes hand in hand with Monsanto’s Glyphosate based RoundUp herbicide, has failed across the world at controlling weeds, creating super weeds. Glyphosate, classified by the World Health Organisation as a carcinogen, is already being used across India and we are seeing an explosion of cancers in villages where Glyphosate is used.
→ read full articleFree Basics: Corporate Freedom to Privatise India’s Basic Economy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Mark Zuckerberg is in India with ₹100 crore, in pocket change, for advertising. Facebook’s Free Basics is a repackaged internet.org, or in other words, a system where Facebook decides what parts of the internet are important to users.
→ read full articleCOP21: Emissions Gap Must Be Addressed
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
28 Dec 2015
This “emissions gap” cannot be enforced through the Paris agreement. It rests on nations scaling up their commitments to reduce emissions, but most importantly, on citizens’ movements leading the path to a lower GHG pathway, while enhancing climate resilience and human well being. That’s why citizens must push for “liability” in terms of emissions — the principle “polluter pays”.
→ read full articleCorporate Imperialism – The Only Reason for GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The Papal Bull of 1493 -Inter Caetera- and the concept of Terra Nullius allowed the Catholic Church, and the Empires of the time, to change the destiny of millions of people and their cultures around the world, by allowing Europe to grab what it wanted from faraway lands. Terra Nullius, Latin, meaning ‘empty lands’ or ‘lands that belong to no one’ was a novel concept.
→ read full articleThe Food Dharma
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
14 Sep 2015
The imposition of GMOs violates the dharma of food… Instead of seeing food as the creator, corporations developing GMOs are taking over the role of ‘creator’ through ‘patents’ on life.
→ read full articleEat Local
Prof. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age,
20 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015 – Rebuilding the broken food system, its ecological cycles and the broken links between the city and the countryside means creating food-smart citizens who know what they are eating.
→ read full articleSoil, Papered Over
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
The rhetoric for taking over food systems and seed supply is always based on ‘improved seed’. But industrial seeds are only ‘improved’ in the context of higher dependence on chemicals, and more control by corporations.
→ read full articleStorm in Maggi’s Cup
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
15 Jun 2015
Nestlé pulls Maggi — its nutritionally empty noodle snack — from shelves in India. Nestlé’s objective, aligned with every global multinational jockeying for position to control more and more of our food market, is profits — even if that means compromising consumers’ health.
→ read full articleWomen and Biodiversity Feed the World, Not Corporations and GMOs
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The two great ecological challenges of our times are biodiversity erosion and climate change. And both are interconnected, in their causes and their solutions. Industrial agiculture is the biggest contributor to biodiversity erosion as well as to climate change. According to the United Nations, 93% of all plant variety has disappeared over the last 80 years.
→ read full articleBiodiversity or GMOs: Will the Future of Nutrition Be in Women’s Hands or under Corporate Control?
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Declaration for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2015 – 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.
→ read full articleBhopal: A metaphor
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
8 Dec 2014
The pattern of double standards, of privatising profits and socialising disaster runs through the pattern of corporate rule being institutionalised since the Bhopal tragedy.
→ read full article(Italiano) La crescita economica crea povertà
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
18 Nov 2014
Abbiamo bisogno di creare parametri che vadano oltre il PIL, economie che vadano oltre il supermercato globale, che riscoprano la vera ricchezza e l’autentico benessere. Abbiamo bisogno di ricordare che la vera moneta della vita è la vita stessa.
→ read full articleBarriers to Sustainable Farming Put Burden on World’s Poor
Prof. Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
The conflict between “free trade” and food rights came to the fore again at the WTO negotiations in September [2014], when India did not back down from its stance that a permanent solution be found for food security issues before signing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
→ read full articleSeeds of Truth: A Response to Michael Specter’s Article in The New Yorker
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Michael Specter’s piece is poor journalism. I wonder why a journalist who has been Bureau Chief in Moscow for The New York Times and Bureau Chief in New York for the Washington Post, and clearly is an experienced reporter, would submit such a misleading piece. Or why The New Yorker would allow it to be published as honest reporting, with so many fraudulent assertions and deliberate attempts to skew reality.
→ read full articleMarching Against Monsanto Is Marching for Freedom and Democracy
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto [24 May 2014]. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for seed and biodiversity. People often ask me “Why Monsanto”?
→ read full articleWomen Ecowarriors
Prof. Vandana Shiva – Asian Age,
31 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014 – When it comes to the sustenance of the economy, women act as experts and providers. Even though women’s work in providing sustenance is the most vital activity, a patriarchal economy treats it as non-work.
→ read full articleSeeds of Suicide
Prof. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age,
1 Apr 2013
There is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto. Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.
→ read full articleFood Poisoning
Prof. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age,
7 Jan 2013
Food is supposed to provide us nourishment and health but because of the toxins it contains, what we consume has become a major threat to our health. Some toxic substances are added to our food physically, through adulteration, while some enter our food system chemically, through pesticide residues. And some toxins enter the food chain genetically, through genetic engineering of seeds and crops. Even food packaging can be a source of toxins in food.
→ read full articleEverything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
Prof. Vandana Shiva – YES! Magazine,
10 Dec 2012
Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself will be the best teacher.
→ read full articleGiant Walmart vs the Small Farmer
Prof. Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age,
22 Oct 2012
Any trader who mediates in the distribution of goods between producers and consumers is a middleman. Walmart is neither a producer nor a consumer. Therefore, it is also a middleman; with global muscle. That is how it has become the world’s biggest retailer, carrying out business of nearly $480 billion… The more the government pushes policies towards monopolies and monocultures, the more committed I become to defend our economic democracy and diversity as a saner, more sustainable, more just alternative to the disease of giganticism.
→ read full articleMyths about Industrial Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2012
Reports trying to create doubts about organic agriculture are suddenly flooding the media. The food revolution is the biggest revolution of our times, and the industry is panicking. So it spins propaganda, hoping that in the footsteps of Goebbels, a lie told a hundred times will become the truth. But food is different.
→ read full articleEco Warriors, Arise to Rio’s Earth Summit!
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
A paradigm shift is desperately needed. And it will not come from those who have created the crisis and who are looking for new ways to extend the life of the greed economy by commodifying and privatising all life on earth. They will come to Rio+20 to paint the “greed economy” green, and call it the “green economy”. And they will have powerful governments on their side.
→ read full articleNo Therapy in Retail
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2012
Firstly, rising prices are driven by the commodification of food and speculation on food commodities. Industrialisation and globalisation of food and agriculture has transformed food from a source of life into a commodity, and as a commodity, food is divorced from its sources – the seeds, the soil, the farmer – and from its end use as nourishment for our bodies.
→ read full article(Castellano) Es Hora de Parar la Guerra Contra la Tierra
Prof. Vandana Shiva – TeleSur,
5 Dec 2011
Un puñado de empresas y de potencias busca controlar los recursos de la Tierra y transformar el planeta en un supermercado en el que todo está en venta. Quieren vender nuestra agua, genes, células, órganos, conocimientos, culturas y nuestro futuro.
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