Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989).
Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya (“nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .
Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India ’s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics.
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GMOs, Seed Wars, and Knowledge Wars
Myths About Industrial Agriculture
Designing Food Systems To Protect Nature And Get Rid Of Hunger
20 Years After the Earth Summit: What Does the Future Hold
Science and Democracy
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The Practice of Sustainability
The Rights of Mother Earth
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Vandana Shiva – Earth Democracy at PCC
Sydney Peace Prize
Lessons of Fighting Hegemonies in Food and Seed for 30 Years
Seeding Deep Democracy
Corporate Rule
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Food Laws
From Monocultures to Diversity, From Food Monopolies to Food Democracy 2/2
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Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
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