Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
Articles by Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva: How Indigenous Seeds Can End Farmer Suicides
The indigenous seeds are bred by farmers for renewability, diversity, nutrition, taste and resilience. Wherever farmers have reclaimed native seeds as a commons, they have reduced costs, increased incomes, become debt-free and are not driven to suicide.
Vandana Shiva: Seed Freedom is an Ethical and Ecological Imperative
The duty to save seeds and defend seed freedom is an ethical and ecological imperative. Seeds are the first link in the food chain and the repository of life’s future evolution. As such, it is our inherent duty and responsibility to protect them and to pass them on to future generations. The growing of seeds and their free exchange among farmers is the basis of maintaining biodiversity and food security.
Vandana Shiva: Two Futures of Health, Two Paradigms of Science
The same chemical industry that brings us toxics in agriculture also controls “modern medicine” based on pharmaceuticals.
Vandana Shiva: Seed Freedom and the Future of Farming
In an era of climate change, rejuvenating and regenerating the soil through ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species.
Vandana Shiva: Food Sovereignty is the Need of the Hour
Two decades of corporate driven globalization has destroyed the biodiversity and cultural diversity of our indigenous food systems.