2012-08-21 Defending seed sovereignty. The Ecologist.
Vandana Shiva has launched the new global campaign Seed Freedom.
"Seed is the source of life and the first link in the food chain. Control over seed means a control over our lives, our food and our freedom."
"Corporations like Monsanto have created a seed emergency, through patents on seeds, seed monopolies, biopiracy genetic engineering and creation of non renewable sterile seeds."
2010-03-07 Land grab in Africa. The Guardian, UK.
Ethiopia, where several million people depend on food aid, sells vast parts of its farming land to foreign companies and governments, and exports food and biofuel to the Western World and the Middle East.
Vandana Shiva states: "We are seeing dispossession on a massive scale. It means less food is available and local people will have less. There will be more conflict and political instability and cultures will be uprooted."
08-04-11 The recipe for food rights. Al Jazeera.net.
"The Third World does not need charity; the Third World needs food sovereignty."
The link between rising food prices, globalisation, biofuels and hunger and despair in the so-called Third World is becoming more and more evident.
Vandana Shiva has warned for years of how globalisation affects farmers and ordinary people in India. Now, with biofuels and the rising demand for meat in countries like China driving up food prices worldwide, her appeals seem more relevant than ever.
2009-07-31 Report highlights hunger in India. BBC.
Vandana Shiva's Navdanya Trust just published a report saying that more than 200 million Indians suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
According to Vandana Shiva there are now more hungry people in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2006-12-13 Interview with Vandana Shiva. Democracy Now, USA.
Vandana Shiva on farmer suicides, the U.S.-India nuclear deal, Wal-Mart in India, and more ...
2008-04-11 The recipe for food rights. Al Jazeera.net.
"The Third World does not need charity; the Third World needs food sovereignty."
Vandana Shiva has warned for years of how globalisation affects farmers and ordinary people in India. Now, with biofuels and the rising demand for meat in countries like China driving up food prices worldwide, her appeals seem more relevant than ever.
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