Vandana Shiva
Autor de Stolen Harvest: the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Sobre El Autor
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader, activist, and scholar who has dedicated her life to defending the sovereignty of biological and Indigenous knowledge.
Obras de Vandana Shiva
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics (1991) 83 copias
Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology (2015) 68 copias
Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth (2020) 32 copias
Seed sovereignty, food security : women in the vanguard of the fight against GMOs and corporate agriculture (2015) 27 copias
Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change (2022) 11 copias
Ecology and the Politics of Survival (United Nations university programme on peace & global transformation) (1991) 6 copias
The Seed Keepers 4 copias
Vandana Shiva: The Corporate Control of Life: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 012 (100 Notes - 100… (2011) 4 copias
Seeds of Suicide: The Ecological and Human Costs of the Globalization of Agriculture (2005) 3 copias
Food, Farming and Health: Respecting "Annam" - Agricultural Biodiversity and Traditional Indian Dietary Wisdom (2018) 2 copias
Philanthrokapitalismus und die Aushöhlung der Demokratie: Ein globaler Bürgerbericht über die Kontrolle… (2023) 2 copias
Wer ernährt die Welt wirklich? 2 copias
ANNADANA The Gift of God 1 copia
සොරාගත් අස්වැන්න 1 copia
Development, ecology and women 1 copia
Roti Kapda aur Makaan: How 10 years of WTO have Robbed India of Lives and Livelihoods. (2006) 1 copia
Seed: the Untold Story 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power (1993) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Shiva Navdanya, Vandana
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-11-05
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- India
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Lugares de residencia
- Delhi, India
- Educación
- University of Western Ontario (PhD|Philosophy|1978))
University of Guelph (BS|Physics) - Ocupaciones
- physicist
environmental activist
author - Organizaciones
- International Forum on Globalization
Chipko Movement
International Organization for a Participatory Society
La Fundación IDEAS - Premios y honores
- Right Livelihood Award (also known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' ∙ 1993)
Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ∙ 1993)
Earth Day International Award of the United Nations (UN ∙ 1993)
Order of the Golden Ark (Netherlands ∙ 1993)
International Award (Spain ∙ 1993)
The Golden Plant Award (International Award of Ecology ∙ 1997) (mostrar todos 8)
Save The World Award (2009)
...and numerous other awards from around the world! - Biografía breve
- Vandana Shiva (b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India), is a philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author of several books. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation:“Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory”. Shiva participated in the nonviolent Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, some of whose main participants were women, adopted the approach of forming human circles around trees to prevent their felling. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book "Vedic Ecology" (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage.
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"The cheapness of industrially produced food and expensiveness of organic foods does not reflect their cost of production but the heavy subsidies given to industrial agriculture." p 119
This is a book about how agro giants are taking over food production and destroying crop diversity, livelihoods, etc.
The author is Indian and the book focuses on the agricultural landscape of India, which was a refreshing perspective. Sadly, mentions of the U.S. were (rightly) negative.
Also sad is the misplaced worship of food culture. In India, seeds and harvests are worshiped. In the U.S., agro profits made from exploitation are worshiped.
The book was really informative. I knew a little about the subject going on, but the book provided me with a much more thorough understanding.
It's not necessarily the easiest to read, though, since there are a lot of statistics and acronyms used. Also, this is relatively old now (published in 2000), so while the general ideas are still valid, the actual numbers aren't current.
It's certainly worth a read, especially considering it's so short (under 150 pages!).… (más)