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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
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
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"
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
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
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
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.
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
Shiva: Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
Znet Article, October, 05 2011
Vandana Shiva
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We are in a food emergency
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
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.
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.
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...
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: 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 ...
Shiva: W.T.O. IS DEAD, LONG LIVE REE TRADE
Znet Article, July, 30 2006
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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...
Shiva: The Great Grain Robbery by Agribusiness MNC's
Znet Article, June, 21 2006
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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 ...
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...
Shiva: The Law For Food Facism: The Proposed Food Safety & Standards Bill, 2005
Znet Article, February, 21 2005
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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...
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...
Shiva: Work Is Worship
Znet Article, January, 21 2005
Vandana2 Shiva
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On 5th December 2004, I was honoured with the Basavashree Awar...
Shiva: To India's Finance Minister
Znet Article, June, 29 2004
Vandana2 Shiva
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Dear Shri Chidambaram ji, You have announced a "bail-out" package for Indian farmers, thousands of whom have taken their lives in distress and hopelessness, by asking the banks in the commercial, cooperative and public sector to increase their ru...
Shiva: Super Highways
Znet Article, February, 19 2004
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Super Highways
Shiva: Social Movements
Znet Article, November, 19 2003
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When tens of thousands filled the streets of Seattle to protest a summit of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999, many news reports focused on the spectacle of the moment — the tear gas in the air, the smashed storefront windows, the...
Shiva: In Praise Of Cowdung
Znet Article, November, 20 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth). Cow dung is worshipped because it is the source of renewal of soil fertility and hence the sustainability ...
Shiva: Deconstructing Market Access
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
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Deconstructing Market Access
Shiva: Export at Any Cost
Znet Article, May, 14 2002
Vandana2 Shiva
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Oxfam International's report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" on Trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty is a brave attempt at combining two paradigms. However, when two paradigms are incommensurate, putting them together only create...
Shiva: THE LIVING DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
Znet Article, February, 23 2002
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The Bankruptcy of Globalisation Globalisation was projected as the next great leap of human evolution in a linear forward march from tribes to nations to global markets. Our i...
