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Znet Article Shiva: Seeds of Suicide

Znet Article, April, 04 2013 Vandana Shiva
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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

Znet Article Shiva: Vandana Shiva on Int’l Women’s Day: "Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women"

Znet Article, March, 09 2013 Vandana Shiva
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Interview on a very violent economic order to which war has become essential—war against the earth, war against women’s bodies, war against local economies and war against democracy

Znet Article Shiva: Safety As Freedom

Znet Article, February, 06 2013 Vandana Shiva
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The duty of a state that claims to be democratic is to guarantee safety and freedom to its "weakest citizens"

Znet Article Shiva: Myths About Industrial Agriculture

Znet Article, September, 25 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Organic farming is the "only way to produce food" without harming the planet and people's health

Znet Article Shiva: The Great U Turn: Rio plus 20

Znet Article, June, 27 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Rio+20 will be remembered for what it failed to do in a period of severe and multiple crises, not for what it achieved

Znet Article Shiva: Beyond Fossilized Paradigms: Futureconomics of Food

Znet Article, April, 27 2012 Vandana Shiva
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The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis are a reflection of an outmoded and fossilized economic paradigm

Znet Article Shiva: The Seed Emergency: The Threat to Food and Democracy

Znet Article, February, 12 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Patenting seeds has led to a farming and food crisis – and huge profits for US biotechnology corporations.

Znet Article Shiva: Climate Justice Requires a New Paradigm

Znet Article, November, 29 2011 Vandana Shiva
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The failure to reduce green house gases is linked to following the flawed route of carbon trading and emissions trading

Znet Article Shiva: Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds

Znet Article, October, 05 2011 Vandana Shiva
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We are in a food emergency

Znet Article Shiva: The Great Land Grab: India's War on Farmers

Znet Article, June, 09 2011 Vandana Shiva
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Burying our fertile food-producing soils under concrete and factories is burying the country's future

Znet Article Shiva: Progressive Interview

Znet Article, December, 29 2010 Vandana Shiva
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An Interview with Vandana Shiva in the December/January issue of The Progressive Magazine.

Znet Article Shiva: Time To End War Against The Earth

Znet Article, November, 04 2010 Vandana Shiva
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When we think of wars in our times, our minds turn to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bigger war is the war against the planet.

Znet Article Shiva: Focus on Hunger

Znet Article, October, 25 2010 Vandana Shiva
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The dominant model of agriculture has come out of capitalist patriarchy and is based on war...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article Shiva: India Drowning in Pesticides

Znet Article, August, 13 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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The issue of toxics and poisons in our food system has once again moved to the contre of national concern. CSE's study on pesticides in Coke and Pepsi shows that three years after the Joint Parliamentary Committee, no action has been taken by the ...

Znet Article Shiva: W.T.O. IS DEAD, LONG LIVE REE TRADE

Znet Article, July, 30 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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The Doha round negotiations collapsed once again at the Mini Ministerial in Geneva on 23rd July 2006. Martin Khor of Third World Network reports from Geneva that when asked of the Doha Round is dead or in intensive care, Mr. Kamal Nath, India's Co...

Znet Article Shiva: The Great Grain Robbery by Agribusiness MNC's

Znet Article, June, 21 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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Wheat is called "Kanak" or gold in India, both because fields of wheat look like fields of gold as the "Rabi" (Winter) crop ripens in North Indian farms, and also because wheat is the farmers gold in the land of the 'roti' and 'chapatti'. As the ...

Znet Article Shiva: From Doha to Hong Kong, via Cancun

Znet Article, December, 12 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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The WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets th...

Znet Article Shiva: The Law For Food Facism: The Proposed Food Safety & Standards Bill, 2005

Znet Article, February, 21 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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Food laws and Food Safety for India’s diverse and local food economy The Government has drafted a Food Safety and Standards Bill 2005 as an “Integrated Food Law” which has been prepared with the intention to be contempora...

Znet Article Shiva: The Indian Seed Act And Patent Act

Znet Article, February, 14 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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Since the beginning of farming, farmers have sown seeds, harvested crops, saved part of the harvest for seeds, exchanged seeds with neighbours. Every ritual in India involves seeds, the very symbol of life’s renewal. In 2004 two laws hav...

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