{"id":143718,"date":"2019-10-07T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=143718"},"modified":"2019-09-23T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T07:32:13","slug":"the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva-a-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/10\/the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva-a-documentary-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seeds of Vandana Shiva – A Documentary Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Remarkable Life Story of an Indian-Gandhian Eco-activist and Agro-ecologist
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Trailer of the inspiring life story of Dr. Vandana Shiva and the international movement for an organic and regenerative food system. You can see more about <\/em>The Seeds of Vandana Shiva at vandanashivamovie.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator\u00a0become the world\u2019s most powerful opponent of Monsanto? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva<\/em>, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist, Vandana Shiva. A classic David versus Goliath tale, the film shows\u00a0how Vandana, a\u00a0brilliant scientist, became Monsanto\u2019s worst nightmare and a rock star of the international sustainable food movement.<\/p>\n

Vandana Shiva is a modern day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their toxic though lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world\u2019s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail?<\/p>\n

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\nTRANSCEND Member<\/a> Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n

Navdanya<\/a><\/strong> and the Navdanya movement were created by Dr. Vandana Shiva 30 years ago in India to defend Seed and Food sovereignty<\/strong> and small farmers around the world. Navdanya pioneered the\u00a0movement of seed saving and seed freedom<\/strong>, which began in response to\u00a0the crisis of erosion of agricultural\u00a0biodiversity and introduction of GMOs and patents on seeds through intellectual property rights (IPRs) and so-called \u2018free trade\u2019 agreements. It has long fought against biopiracy, the patenting of indigenous knowledge by self-interested multinational corporations and won cases related to Neem, basmati rice and wheat in India. Navdanya promotes a new agricultural and economic paradigm, a culture of food for health, where ecological responsibility and economic justice replace the present greed, consumerism and competition which have become dominant in society. It aims at regaining the common good as a foundation for a renewed sense of community, solidarity and culture of peace. We strive to achieve these goals through the conservation, renewal and rejuvenation<\/strong> of the gifts of biodiversity we have received from nature and our ancestors, and to defend these gifts as commons. More\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Remarkable Life Story of an Indian-Gandhian Eco-activist and Agro-ecologist – Trailer of the inspiring life story of Dr. Vandana Shiva and the international movement for an organic and regenerative food system. How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become the world\u2019s most powerful opponent of Monsanto?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[229,842,952,930,1121,239,232,120,331,1124,519,354,849,401,248,1212,932,1055,931,487,759,866,651,234,929,1200,444,1122,119,109,287,1102,935,1455,985,380,70,1120,921,75],"class_list":["post-143718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-activism","tag-agri-food","tag-agriculture","tag-bayer","tag-biodiversity","tag-brics","tag-capitalism","tag-conflict","tag-development","tag-ecofeminism","tag-ecology","tag-economics","tag-ecosystem","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-fraud","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-genetic-manipulation","tag-gmo","tag-human-rights","tag-india","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-monsanto","tag-natures-rights","tag-nonviolence","tag-organic-food","tag-peace","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-public-health","tag-roundup","tag-seeds","tag-social-justice","tag-solutions","tag-usa","tag-vandana-shiva","tag-whistleblowing","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}