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Shiva: The Injustice of Carbon Offsets

Znet Article, September, 20 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened

Shiva: A plate full of toxins

Commentary, September, 14 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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In times when food is genetically manipulated and chemically contaminated, the metaphor "food for thought" can also stand for manipulated information and be toxic food for thought. Unfortunately, Dr M.S. Swaminathanâ€™s GM: Food for Thought (Augus...

Shiva: Climate Change, Drought and India's Looming Food and Water Crisis

Commentary, August, 15 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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Intensification of drought, floods and cyclones is one of the predictable impacts of climate change and climate instability. The failure of monsoon in India and the consequent drought, has impacted two thirds of India, especially the bread basket ...

Shiva: Proposed Food Security Act : Blindspots and Biases

Commentary, July, 09 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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The proposed introduction of a Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome step. The Right to Food is the basis of the Right to life, and Art.21 of the Constitution guarantees the right to life of all Indian citizens.

Shiva: Climate Change at the Third Pole

Commentary, May, 17 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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I write from Ladakh, where we are studying the impact of climate change and evolving participatory adaptation and disaster preparedness strategies with local communities.

Shiva: Globalization And Its Fall Out

Commentary, March, 16 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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Globalization was imposed on the world with a promise of peace and prosperity. Instead we are faced with war and economic crisis. Not only has prosperity proved elusive, the minimal economic securities of people and countries are fast disappearing.

Shiva: Toxic Genes and Toxic Papers : IFPRI covering up the link between Bt. Cotton and Farmers Suicides

Commentary, January, 20 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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The financial meltdown that started in September 2008 was a result of the investments based on "toxic" paper - worthless financial instruments traded for super profits, even while they failed to reflect any value in the real economy. "Toxic Assets...

Shiva: Food, Finance & Climate

Commentary, November, 22 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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At the end of 2007, Al Gore and IPCC were honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize for waking up the world to the climate catastrophe we face as a consequence of fossil fuel based industrial production and consumerism.

Shiva: The Collapse Of The WTO Doha Negotiations And The Future Of Food And Farmers

Commentary, August, 09 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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The spirit of Seattle and Cancun is alive. Once more the WTO negotiations were stalled/ With a combination of Southern country unity, the strength of people's movements, and let us not ignore the pressure put on negotiators by the spectare of upco...

Shiva: Dismantling Democracy, Science and the Public Interest

Commentary, July, 14 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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Genetically Engineered Organisms (GMOs) are transgenic organisms made by introducing genes across species boundaries. Thus Bt. Cotton, or Bt. Rice or Bt. Brinjal has genes for a toxin taken from a soil bacteria and put into the food crop. In addit...

Shiva: Globalisation Pills for Globalisation Ills: Offering the Disease as the Cure for India's Deepening Food and Agrarian Crisis

Commentary, April, 10 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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Over the last 15 years, India's food and agriculture systems have been severely destabilized as a result of policies of economic globalisation and trade liberalization. Two aspects of this destabilization are the agrarian crisis and the rise in fo...

Shiva: Bija Yatra – From Champaram To Rajghat : A Pilgrimage To Save Seeds, The Land And Our Farmers

Commentary, April, 05 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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Champaran, a little village near the Nepal Border in the State of Bihar became the site of Gandhi’s historic Champaran Satyagraha during India’s freedom struggle. During British rule farmers of Bihar and Bengal were forced to grow indigo, the sour...

Shiva: Seeding Deep Democracy

Video, January, 17 2008 Vandana2 Shiva
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Scientist, activist, author Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of 'Earth Democracy.'

Shiva: Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change

Commentary, December, 13 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change

Shiva: Wheat Biopiracy The Real Issues the Government is Avoiding

Commentary, November, 16 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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The epidemic of biopiracy is an assault on our living heritage of biodiversity and cumulative innovation embodied in the traditional knowledge of agriculture and medicine.