Vandana Shiva trained as a physicist prior to dedicating her life to the protection of India's biodiversity and food security. She is the author of numerous books and the recipient of numerous awards.

The worldâ€™s peasants, providing 72 per cent of its food, are defined as unproductive.

Kerala wake-up call on growth & development

FSSAI equates bad fats which are unfit for eating with good fats necessary for health.

FSSAIâ€™s labelling rules promote unhealthy food

Seed is not just the source of life, it is the very foundation of our being.

A victory for â€˜seed freedomâ€™

People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of the fossilised paradigm.

Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides

The toxic chemical industry is responsible for many of the chronic disease epidemics we face.

2 futures of health, 2 paradigms of science

Indiaâ€™s National Food Security Act is an important law that is supposed to guarantee the Right to Food to the last Indian citizen.

Food sovereignty is need of the hour

This brilliance in breeding was abruptly stopped when the Green Revolution was imposed on us in the 1960s.

Seeds of diversity, resilience & freedom

Biodiversity-intensive organic farming produces more food and nutrition per acre.

Our biodiversity, our life, our future

Ignoring the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee of the SC is, in effect, contempt of court.

Enough! Donâ€™t allow GMO mustard

The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make â€œbread from airâ€.

Food and farming: Two futures

Â Now farmers have started to awaken the nation to the farming crisis with strikes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Protect farmers, donâ€™t target them

If GMO mustard is approved, India as a democratic, sovereign country dies.

Why Sarson Satyagraha is still needed

More than 310,000 farmers have committed suicide in the last two decades.

Satyagraha for a hunger-free India

Most of the chronic diseases of our times are â€œfood styleâ€ diseases.

Keep food diverse. Itâ€™s healthy

Satyagraha, the force of truth, is more important than ever in our age of â€œpost-truthâ€.

Satyagraha in â€˜post-truthâ€™ era

East India Company was invented in 1600 to usurp the trade of which India was the hub.

Free trade: A corporate scam

The economy has been laundered, and the stains have spread.

Beware of digital dictatorship

The purest currency in peopleâ€™s economies is life, love, communion and trust.

Cash is pro-people, only rich love digital

Breeding genetic diversity of livestock with multiple uses has been ignored by the industrial animal breeding â€˜factoriesâ€™.

Sacred cow: A milking machine?

Swadeshi won freedom from corporate imperialism a century ago.

Itâ€™s time for new swadeshi battle

The Farben family chemical cartel was responsible for  exterminating people in concentration camps.

The poisonous cartel of GMOs

Chemical corporations are trying to impose patents on all living organisms.

Free people from â€˜dictatorshipâ€™ of 0.01%

Avoid â€˜miracleâ€™ rice, just eat a carrot!

India needs to strengthen international and national laws to protect biodiversity and farmers rights.

The great seed piracy

Akti is a celebration of the relationship of the seed and the soil, and the community.

Seeds of suicide

The increase in Bt cotton came at the cost of jowar which holds the answer to drought in Maharashtra.

Seeds of drought

Monsanto charged $900 million from Indian farmers for failed technology.

Seed swaraj

Indiaâ€™s laws, rightly, do not permit patents on seeds and in agriculture.

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