“The protection of biodiversity and farmers' rights is essential for a sustainable future.”
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred to as "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement.
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science · Indian philosopher, scientist and environmentalist · philosopher · writer · university teacher · politician · environmentalist · ecofeminist · physicist · also Vandana Shiva, Shiva
Born 5 November 1952 · Q235451
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2026· 2 entries
“in an economy which fails to respect ecological and ethical limits.”
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University (2024).
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2021· 1 entry
Advised the government of Sri Lanka to ban inorganic fertilizers and pesticides stating "This decision will definitely help farmers become more prosperous
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2019).
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2017· 1 entry
“rise of masculinist science with Descartes, Newton, Bacon, led to the domination of [a] reductionist mechanistic science and a subjugation of [the] knowledge systems [that are] based on interconnections and relationships,”
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity (2016).
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Appeared in the vegan documentary film H
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Plagiarised several paragraphs of an article by S Faizi on the Plachimada/Coca-Cola issue published in The Statesman
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2015· 3 entries
Published video “Gardens Of Resistence”.
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Published video “Making Peace with the Earth - 17/11/2015”.
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Published video “Making Peace with the Earth: Message for Mother Earth Day”.
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2014· 2 entries
Published video “Climate Chaos: What is at risk?”.
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Published video “After the Flood | Uttarakhand”.
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2013· 6 entries
Published video “Seeds Of Love”.
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Published video “Fortnight for Seed and Food Freedom | October 2013”.
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Published video “A March against Monsanto is a March for Life and Freedom - 25th May 2013”.
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Published video “Navdanya | Vasundhara 2012”.
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Published video “Navdanya | No to GMO Bananas”.
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“Soaring seed prices in India have resulted in many farmers being mired in debt and turning to suicide.”
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (2012).
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Awarded The Glass of Reason (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University (2010).
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Awarded Sydney Peace Prize (2010).
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Shiva was interviewed in a documentary about honeybees and colony collapse disorder, entitled Queen of the Sun
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded LennonOno Grant for Peace (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Blue Planet Award (2007).
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"to speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations
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2005· 2 entries
“No Patents on Seeds: A Handbook For Activists”
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Shiva's was one of the three organisations that won a 10-year battle in the European Patent Office against the biopiracy of Neem by the US Department of Agriculture and the corporation WR Grace
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2004· 1 entry
Shiva started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, in collaboration with Schumacher College, UK
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2001· 3 entries
Following intensive campaigning, RiceTec lost most of its claims to the patent
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“emergency cannot be used as market opportunity”
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“Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply”
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1999· 2 entries
Ten thousand people were killed and millions were left homeless when a cyclone hit India's eastern coastal state of Orissa
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For its illegal Bt cotton trials in India, I have received death threats", adding that the "concerted PR assault on me for the last two years from Lynas, Specter and an equally vocal Twitter group is a sign that the glob
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1998· 2 entries
Shiva's organisation Navdanya began a campaign against the biopiracy of basmati rice by US corporation RiceTec Inc
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Shiva was also protesting against Bt cotton program in India, calling it "seeds of suicide, seeds of slavery, seeds of despair", claiming she was protecting the farmers
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded Right Livelihood Award (1993).
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With "German anarchist and radical feminist sociologist" Maria Mies
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An award established by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull
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1992· 5 entries
“Original: «Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
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“El ecofeminismo es celebrar la vida, es asegurar que cada persona tenga la confianza de que tiene un lugar en el planeta.”
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“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
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“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a future at all.”
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“Acabemos el agua, ya encontraremos un sustituto. Acabemos la comida, ya encontraremos un sustituto. Esta es la ilusión que han tenido los poderosos. [...]. La comida que dijeron que era un sustituto es de mentira y nos está dañando la salud.”
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1991· 1 entry
A national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade
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1990· 1 entry
Wrote a report for the FAO on Women and Agriculture titled "Most Farmers in India are Women"
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1984· 1 entry
After the violence in Punjab and the Bhopal disaster caused by a gas leak from Union Carbide's pesticide manufacturing plant
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1982· 1 entry
Founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
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1978· 1 entry
Completed and received her PhD in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, focusing on philosophy of physics; her dissertation was titled "Hidden Variables and Locality in Quantum Theory" in which she discuss
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1977· 1 entry
Where she wrote a thesis entitled "Changes in the Concept of Periodicity of Light"
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-11-05.
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