Author Profile: Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a physicist and philosopher and is Director of Bija Vidyapeeth, the International College for Sustainable Living, in Dehra Dun, India. Her books include Water Wars, Monoculture of the Mind, Staying Alive, Protect or Plunder?, Globalisation and Terrorism, and she is co-author of An Ecological History of Food and Farming in India..

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One Planet, One Health • Vandana Shiva

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 • Recovery Time > Ecologist

Our toxic food system must not survive this crisis

The Body Is Not A Machine • Vandana Shiva

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 • Working Together > Ecologist

A new health bill could threaten the integrity of India's traditional medicine

Article - Big Data Doesn't Add Up - Except to Disaster • Vandana Shiva

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 • Light in Dark Days > Web Exclusives > Article

The world is in an agricultural crisis

Trusting and Cultivating the Wild • Vandana Shiva

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 • Together We Are Stronger > Ecologist

We must reclaim our future

Exterminating the Amaranth • Vandana Shiva

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 • Brave New Worlds > Ecologist

A valuable species of nutrition is at risk from GM technologies

Gandhi's Ghani • Vandana Shiva

Issue 296 • May/June 2016 • Days of Hope > Ecologist

India's farmers face a new threat - to traditional oil-pressing

A New Pact With the Planet • Vandana Shiva

Issue 295 • March/April 2016 • Walking Back to Happiness > Ecologist

A 10-point pledge to the Earth

Dharma of Food • Vandana Shiva

Issue 294 • January/February 2016 • A Food Renaissance > Ecologist

The spiritual ideas behind agriculture

Why Are Indian Farmers Dying? • Vandana Shiva

Issue 292 • September/October 2015 • Lines of Hope > Ecologist

The impact of industrialised agriculture on small farmers

New Paradigms For Farming • Vandana Shiva

Issue 290 • May/June 2015 • Becoming Barbarian > Ecologist

We must abandon misleading concepts based on the idea of agriculture as war against the land

We Are Soil • Vandana Shiva

Issue 288 • January/February 2015 • Power to the People > Ecologist

The need for organic stewardship

Article - Remembering Bhopal • Vandana Shiva

Issue 288 • January/February 2015 • Power to the People > Web Exclusives > Article

Bhopal marks a political, economic and legal watershed for India and the planet.

Nurturing Nature is No Crime • Vandana Shiva

Issue 286 • September/October 2014 • Politics of Peace > Ecologist

Defending the freedom of farmers to save their own seeds

The Green Revolution Myth • Vandana Shiva

Issue 285 • July/August 2014 • Energy of Nations > Ecologist

There is no place for poisons and war chemicals in our food and agriculture

Small is the New Big • Vandana Shiva

Issue 283 • March/April 2014 • Small is the New Big > Ecologist

In the smallest seed lies the potential of the largest tree

GMO Mumbo-Jumbo • Vandana Shiva

Issue 282 • January/February 2014 • Benevolent Universe > Ecologist

Making the link between the use of GMO in cotton and the suicide of farmers in India

Seed Freedom • Vandana Shiva

Issue 278 • May/June 2013 • Natural Wealth > Ecologist

Defending the rights of famers to save their own seeds

Futuronomics of Food • Vandana Shiva

Issue 276 • January/February 2013 • The Tipping Point > Undercurrents

We need a new paradigm for the production of food

The Rio U-turn • Vandana Shiva

Issue 274 • September/October 2012 • A Shared Agenda > Ecologist

Rio+20 will be remembered for what it failed to do

Voice from the South - Choosing Simplicity • Vandana Shiva

Issue 273 • July/August 2012 • Emerging Networks > Undercurrents > Voice from the South

Imposed austerity verses chosen simplicity

Voice From The South - Reclaiming the Seed • Vandana Shiva

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Regulars > Voice From The South

Blocking the introduction of India's proposed Seed Law

The 99% • Vandana Shiva

Issue 270 • January/February 2012 • A New Moral Compass > Undercurrents

How the Occupy movement reflects the democratic values of Indigenous peoples

Voice From The South - Beyond Growth • Vandana Shiva

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Regulars > Voice From The South

Nature and people are rendered invisible as 'growth' replaces the wellbeing of the Earth

Voice From The South - The Emperor Has No Clothes • Vandana Shiva

Issue 268 • September/October 2011 • What Comes Next? > Regulars > Voice From The South

Genetic Engineering has not increased the yield of a single crop

Voice From The South - Forests and Freedom • Vandana Shiva

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Regulars > Voice From The South

Forests have been central to India's creative expression through centuries

Voice From The South - Who Will Feed the World? • Vandana Shiva

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Regulars > Voice From The South

Women are the biodiversity experts of the world

Voice From The South - Earth Rights • Vandana Shiva

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Regulars > Voice From The South

Our first and highest duty is to take care of Mother Earth

Voice From The South - Blindspots and Biases • Vandana Shiva

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Regulars > Voice From The South

India's proposed Food Security Act is deeply flawed.

Voice From The South - Water Wisdom • Vandana Shiva

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Regulars > Voice From The South

India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating water famine.

Voice From The South - Swaraj: A Deeper Freedom • Vandana Shiva

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Regulars > Voice From The South

Mahatma Gandhi's vision of right livelihood is as relevant now as it was then.

Climate Justice • Vandana Shiva

Issue 257 • November/December 2009 • Resilience & Climate Change > Biocultural Diversity

The polluters continue to pollute with impunity, whilst people thousands of miles away bear the brunt of their actions.

Review - Soil Not Oil • Vandana Shiva

Issue 255 • July/August 2009 • Sacred Planet > Web Exclusives > Review

Review of Soil Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity.

Reap What You Sow • Vandana Shiva

Issue 254 • May/June 2009 • Elegant Simplicity > Biocultural Diversity

Why does the Indian government continue to turn a blind eye towards farmers' suicides?

Voice From The South - Wealth of Nature • Vandana Shiva

Issue 253 • March/April 2009 • Economics of Place > Regulars > Voice From The South

Agriculture based on ecological laws is the solution to the food crisis.

Article - Food is Everything • Vandana Shiva

Issue 251 • November/December 2008 • Feasting & Fasting: Connecting the Plate and the Planet > Web Exclusives > Article

Hunger created by human greed is an expression of a violent and unjust world.

Voice From The South - Double Standards • Vandana Shiva

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 • Music for Transformation > Regulars > Voice From The South

Corporate responsibility for pollution.

The Other Carbon Economy • Vandana Shiva

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 • The Money Delusion: In Search of True Wealth > Keynotes

There is an alternative to be found in biodiversity.

Feeding People or Cars? • Robin Maynard & Vandana Shiva

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Climate, Biodiversity & Livelihoods

Rebuilding agricultural resilience.

Transition Strategies • Richard Heinberg, Wolfgang Sachs & Vandana Shiva

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 • Gandhi's Gift: The Power Of Nonviolence > Keynotes

Three prominent Resurgence writers explore some options relating to globalisation, peak oil and the industrialisation of agriculture.

Voice From The South - Village Victory • Vandana Shiva

Issue 244 • September/October 2007 • The Green Imperative > Regulars > Voice From The South

The emergence of Earth Democracy in the village of Nandigram, Bengal.

Voice From The South - DEMOCRATIC & DIVERSE • Vandana Shiva

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 • The Point of Return > Regulars > Voice From The South

Manifesto on the Future of Food: good food is a citizens' right.

FOOD FREEDOM • Vandana Shiva

Issue 242 • May/June 2007 • Do we need God? / Food Futures > Food Futures

Terra Madre conference speech: terminator technology is the ultimate instrument of food fascism.

HOW WEALTH CREATES POVERTY • Vandana Shiva

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > Keynotes

Despite 8% economic growth India has a third of the world's malnourished children.

FROM QUANTA TO THE SEED • Vandana Shiva

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 • Celebrating 40 Years of Resurgence > Gaian Science

The seed is my greatest teacher. From the seed I learn how to integrate with the web of life.

UNWANTED ADVICE • Vandana Shiva

Issue 237 • July/August 2006 • Reflecting on India > India

The US-India Knowledge Initiative is promoting ignorance in the name of knowledge. The techniques of traditional Indian agriculture cannot be 'improved'.