"In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life." — Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a ecofeminist and anti globalist. Shiva's work is aimed primarily at the battle against GMOS and agricultural multinational corporations. She states “Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.”
Shiva has taken on big agriculture, arguing that we can end world hunger and help save the planet while also preserving the unique cultural and culinary traditions that make our world so wonderfully diverse. She advocates for small farmers and their unique varieties and diversity of food crops and seeds. New research is showing that native seeds have higher nutrition than industrially bred “high-yielding varieties". She believes agricultural monocultures are destroying our world. “Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.” says Shiva.
“Protecting the Earth and indigenous cultures is more important than ever today because five centuries of colonialism and three centuries of fossil fuel-based industrialism has brought us to collapse. Indigenous people have lived in harmony with nature, respecting the Earth and her limits. They are teachers for survival in a period of extinction.”
"In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life."
— Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a ecofeminist and anti globalist. Shiva's work is aimed primarily at the battle against GMOS and agricultural multinational corporations. She states “Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.”
Shiva has taken on big agriculture, arguing that we can end world hunger and help save the planet while also preserving the unique cultural and culinary traditions that make our world so wonderfully diverse. She advocates for small farmers and their unique varieties and diversity of food crops and seeds. New research is showing that native seeds have higher nutrition than industrially bred “high-yielding varieties". She believes agricultural monocultures are destroying our world. “Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.” says Shiva.
“Protecting the Earth and indigenous cultures is more important than ever today because five centuries of colonialism and three centuries of fossil fuel-based industrialism has brought us to collapse. Indigenous people have lived in harmony with nature, respecting the Earth and her limits. They are teachers for survival in a period of extinction.”