Author Profile: Vandana Shiva

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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'.

Voice From The South - IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT • Vandana Shiva

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 • Animate Earth > Regulars > Voice From The South

Development' has become a camouflage for capitalist growth.

Voice From The South - WATER FUTURES • Vandana Shiva

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Regulars > Voice From The South

The World Bank policies of water privatisation in India will cause a hydro-apartheid.

Voice From The South - CO-OPTED • Vandana Shiva

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 • The Answer is still Peace > Regulars > Voice From The South

FLAT VISION • Vandana Shiva

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 • Nature Knows us - do we know nature? > Reviews

Review of The World is Flat

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 • The Four Pillars of Sustainability > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South - TSUNAMI LESSONS • Vandana Shiva

Issue 230 • May/June 2005 • Inspired Designs > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South - CELEBRATING FOOD ECONOMIES • Vandana Shiva

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 • The Spiritual Imperative > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South - GIFT OF FOOD • Vandana Shiva

Issue 228 • January/February 2005 • Gaia and Global Change > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 222 • January/February 2004 • Natural Governance > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 220 • September/October 2003 • Science and Spirituality > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 219 • July/August 2003 • A time to heal > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 218 • May/June 2003 • Futility of War > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 217 • March/April 2003 • Myth of Prosperity > Regulars > Voice From The South

THE GREAT BETRAYAL • Vandana Shiva

Issue 216 • January/February 2003 • Patterns of Wholeness > Feature Articles

Why civil society withdrew from the W$$D.

PARADIGM SHIFT • Vandana Shiva

Issue 214 • September/October 2002 • Challenge at Johannesburg > Feature Articles

Rebuilding true security in an age of insecurity.

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 213 • July/August 2002 • Reverential Ecology > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 212 • May/June 2002 • Kamasutra: The Art of Love > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 211 • March/April 2002 • A sense of belonging > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 210 • January/February 2002 • In Adoration of Nature > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 209 • November/December 2001 • Crafts for Christmas > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 208 • September/October 2001 • Technology: dream or nightmare? > Regulars > Voice From The South

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Issue 207 • July/August 2001 • Art Makes Life > Regulars > Voice From The South

STOLEN HARVEST • Vandana Shiva

Issue 205 • March/April 2001 • Good food and better farming > Food

In Indian culture seeds are sacred. Multinational corporations are stealing seeds from the poor.

GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY • Vandana Shiva

Issue 202 • September/October 2000 • Homage to Gaia > Feature Articles

Economic globalization has become a war against nature and the poor.

EARTH FAMILY • Vandana Shiva

Issue 199 • March/April 2000 • You are, therefore I am > Feature Articles

All and everything exist in an eternal relationship between species.

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