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Vandana Shiva trained as a physicist prior to dedicating her life to the protection of India's biodiversity and food security. She is the author of numerous books and the recipient of numerous awards.
    An aerial view of the floods in Aluva after heavy rains, in Kerala. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Kerala wake-up call on growth & development

    The world's peasants, providing 72 per cent of its food, are defined as unproductive.

    21 Aug 2018 7:26 PM

    Food and Safety Standard Authority of India (FSSAI)Opinion
    FSSAI's labelling rules promote unhealthy food

    FSSAI equates bad fats which are unfit for eating with good fats necessary for health.

    15 July 2018 9:42 PM

    A victory for seed freedomOpinion
    A victory for seed freedom'

    Seed is not just the source of life, it is the very foundation of our being.

    2 May 2018 2:04 AM

    More than three lakh farmers in India have committed suicide since the bioimperialists entered our agriculture through globalisation and the so-called free trade .Opinion
    Indigenous seeds can end farmer suicides

    People are rendered redundant, disposable, useless in the very logic of the fossilised paradigm.

    21 March 2018 7:43 PM

    Another physician, Dr Vidhyadharan C, noted, The Ayurveda system has been using metals for treatment. We often heat water and other liquids in metal vessels.Opinion
    2 futures of health, 2 paradigms of science

    The toxic chemical industry is responsible for many of the chronic disease epidemics we face.

    9 Feb 2018 1:42 AM

    The comparatively colder weather tends to make people skip workouts and eat energy dense, calorie-rich foods which only piles on the weight.Opinion
    Food sovereignty is need of the hour

    India's National Food Security Act is an important law that is supposed to guarantee the Right to Food to the last...

    25 Dec 2017 7:26 PM

    This brilliance in breeding was abruptly stopped when the Green Revolution was imposed on us in the 1960s by the chemical industry with its roots in the war.Opinion
    Seeds of diversity, resilience & freedom

    This brilliance in breeding was abruptly stopped when the Green Revolution was imposed on us in the 1960s.

    5 Dec 2017 9:28 PM

    The recent floods in Mumbai on August 29. (Photo: DC)Opinion
    Our biodiversity, our life, our future

    Biodiversity-intensive organic farming produces more food and nutrition per acre.

    5 Oct 2017 7:45 PM

    Bayer will acquire up to 44,88,315 shares of Monsanto India from public shareholders at a price of Rs 2,481.60 apiece.Opinion
    Enough! Don't allow GMO mustard

    Ignoring the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee of the SC is, in effect, contempt of court.

    8 Aug 2017 7:16 PM

    Farming in Telangana is the costliestOpinion
    Food and farming: Two futures

    The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make “bread from air”.

    11 July 2017 7:33 PM

    Protect farmers, dont target themOpinion
    Protect farmers, don't target them

    Now farmers have started to awaken the nation to the farming crisis with strikes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

    22 Jun 2017 7:55 PM

    Vandana Shiva (Photo Courtesy: Goodfoodworld.com)Opinion
    Why Sarson Satyagraha is still needed

    If GMO mustard is approved, India as a democratic, sovereign country dies.

    29 May 2017 8:15 PM

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