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Shiva: We Don’t Need Genetically Engineered Bananas For Iron Deficiency

Commentary, April, 27 2013 Vandana Shiva
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The latest insanity from the genetic engineers is to push GMO bananas on India for reducing iron deficiency in Indian women

Shiva: Violent Economic “Reforms”, and the Growing Violence against Women

Commentary, December, 30 2012 Vandana Shiva
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We must demand and get speedy and effective justice for women

Shiva: GMOs, Seed Wars, and Knowledge Wars

Commentary, October, 31 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Genetically engineered seeds and crops (GMOs) have unleashed seed wars, and knowledge wars

Shiva: Myths About Industrial Agriculture

Commentary, September, 07 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Our farms and our bodies are our labs, and every farmer and every citizen is a scientist who knows best how bad farming and bad food hurts the land and our health

Shiva: Designing Food Systems To Protect Nature And Get Rid Of Hunger

Commentary, September, 05 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Hunger and malnutrition is manmade. It is in the design of the industrial chemical model of agriculture

Shiva: 20 Years After the Earth Summit: What Does the Future Hold

Commentary, May, 24 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Every day is an earth summit in our lives

Shiva: Science and Democracy

Commentary, March, 28 2012 Vandana Shiva
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The debate on Genetic Engineering and Nuclear Power is a test case of the intense conflict between corporate rule and democracy

Shiva: Imposed Austerity vs Chosen Simplicity: Who Will Pay For Which Adjustments?

Commentary, March, 01 2012 Vandana Shiva
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Forced austerity makes the poor and working families pay for the excesses of limitless greed and accumulation by the super rich

Shiva: No Therapy in Retail

Commentary, January, 05 2012 Vandana Shiva
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India’s future cannot be “retail dictatorship” and “seed dictatorship”

Shiva: The 99 Percent

Commentary, November, 11 2011 Vandana Shiva
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Humans as earth citizens, with duties and rights, have been replaced by corporations, with no duties to either the earth or society

Shiva: The Great Seed Robbery

Commentary, July, 27 2011 Vandana Shiva
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Patents are central to the colonization of plant regeneration

Shiva: Who Will Keep India Democratic? A Corrupt Corporate State or Peoples’ Movements?

Commentary, July, 25 2011 Vandana Shiva
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Corruption is the unjust, illegal and private appropriation of public resources and public wealth

Shiva: Who Pollutes: The Rich and Powerful or Poor and Powerless?

Commentary, July, 23 2011 Vandana Shiva
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The poor live in the places polluted by the rich

Shiva: GMOs: Myths, Falsehoods, Superstitions

Commentary, January, 23 2011 Vandana Shiva
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In February, the Minister of Environment Mr. Jairam Ramesh put a moratorium on Bt. Brinjal. He is now pushing trials of GM rubber on Kerala which is a GMO free State.

Shiva: Forests And Freedom

Commentary, January, 05 2011 Vandana Shiva
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The biodiversity of the forest teaches us lessons of democracy, of leaving space for others while drawing sustenance from the common web of life.

Shiva: The Killing Fields Of Multi-National Corporations

Commentary, July, 20 2010 Vandana Shiva
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The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurispruden...

Shiva: Water Wisdom

Commentary, March, 15 2010 Vandana Shiva
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Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.

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...

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