Stories by Vandana Shiva

Activist and physicist Vandana Shiva is founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science,

Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. She is author of more than three hundred papers in leading journals and numerous books,

including Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and the Third World and Earth Democracy.

Vandana is a founding director of International Forum on Globalization.

Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization.
Posted on May 18, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum Out of Our Farms

Biodiverse farms offer us more food, better food, higher incomes for farmers and a defense from climate disasters.
Posted on Dec 3, 2008, Source: South End Press

How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy

The physicist, activist and author outlines the scope of the "triple threat" represented by the end of cheap oil, human-induced climate change, and resource scarcity.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007, Source: AlterNet

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