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- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
ZNet Article Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened -
- Monday, Sep 14, 2009
Commentary 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. Swaminathan’s GM: Food for Thought (Augus... -
- Saturday, Aug 15, 2009
Commentary 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jul 09, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Sunday, May 17, 2009
Commentary I write from Ladakh, where we are studying the impact of climate change and evolving participatory adaptation and disaster preparedness strategies with local communities. -
- Monday, Mar 16, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Nov 22, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Aug 09, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jul 14, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Apr 10, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Saturday, Apr 05, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Jan 17, 2008
Video Scientist, activist, author Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of 'Earth Democracy.' -
- Thursday, Dec 13, 2007
Commentary Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change -
- Friday, Nov 16, 2007
Commentary 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. -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Vandana Shiva at ISECS "Beyond Monoculture" Conference, talking about "Corporate Rule" Ladakh, India, 2006. Video Vandana Shiva talks about the patent of seeds by Monsanto. Video Vandana Shiva at ISECS "Beyond Monoculture" Conference, talking about food laws Ladakh, India, 2006. Video From Monocultures to Diversity, From Food Monopolies to Food Democracy 2/2. -
- Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Commentary Nandigram a little known corner of Bengal, near the mouth of the Ganges river suddenly entered the nations consciousness in early 2007. -
- Friday, Apr 06, 2007
Commentary India is a land of small farmers, with 650 million of her 1 billion people living on the land and 80 per cent farmers owning less than 2 ha of land. In other words, the land provides livelihood security for 65 per cent of the people, and the smal... -
- Friday, Feb 02, 2007
Commentary "There is a sacred tie between the tiller and the land. Any attempt to snap the relationship is bound to face opposition". -
- Wednesday, Sep 06, 2006
Commentary In a democracy, a ban on harmful products and activities is an expression of citizens' freedoms and rights. Bans protect citizens from hazards to health and the environment. That is why smoking has been banned in public places. That is why ozone-d... -
- Sunday, Aug 13, 2006
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Aug 10, 2006
Commentary Terror in Dadri - "Urja" Nagar (Power City) become "Ujar Nagar" (City of Devastation) -
- Sunday, Jul 30, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Jun 26, 2006
Commentary The increase in oil prices has led to protests, which have moved to the center stage of Indian politics, displacing the protests against reservations in medical and engineering colleges. -
- Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Friday, Apr 21, 2006
Commentary India, a civilisation built on renewable energy and biodiversity economies is currently at a cross roads - will she continue on its renewable energy path based on biodiversity, and energy equity, or will she follow the non-sustainable energy path ... - All Recent Content
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Shiva's ZNet Articles
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- Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
ZNet Article Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened -
- Sunday, Aug 13, 2006
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Sunday, Jul 30, 2006
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006
ZNet Article 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'.
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- Monday, Dec 12, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Feb 21, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Feb 14, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Jan 21, 2005
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On 5th December 2004, I was honoured with the Basavashree Awar... -
- Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Feb 19, 2004
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- Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Saturday, Nov 02, 2002
ZNet Article Deconstructing Market Access -
- Tuesday, May 14, 2002
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Feb 23, 2002
ZNet Article 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... - All Shiva's ZNet Articles
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Video Scientist, activist, author Vandana Shiva talks about the importance of saving non-GMO seeds and her concept of 'Earth Democracy.' -
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Video Vandana Shiva at ISECS "Beyond Monoculture" Conference, talking about "Corporate Rule" Ladakh, India, 2006. Video Vandana Shiva talks about the patent of seeds by Monsanto. Video Vandana Shiva at ISECS "Beyond Monoculture" Conference, talking about food laws Ladakh, India, 2006. Video From Monocultures to Diversity, From Food Monopolies to Food Democracy 2/2. - All Recent Video
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