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About the AuthorVandana Shiva
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.
    Across the world, communities are saving and exchanging seeds.Opinion
    Seeds of suicide

    Akti is a celebration of the relationship of the seed and the soil, and the community.

    19 May 2016 1:52 AM IST

    Hundreds of farmers from the drought-hit areas have in the meanwhile submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner demanding the laying of a new pipeline to bring water to Bailhongal from the Tigadi-Harinala canal. (Representational image)Opinion
    Seeds of drought

    The increase in Bt cotton came at the cost of jowar which holds the answer to drought in Maharashtra.

    20 April 2016 12:34 AM IST

    Seed swarajOpinion
    Seed swaraj

    Monsanto charged $900 million from Indian farmers for failed technology.

    23 March 2016 12:36 AM IST

    Monsantos ruthlessness is central to the crisis Indian farmers are facing.Opinion
    Make Monsanto pay

    India's laws, rightly, do not permit patents on seeds and in agriculture.

    24 Feb 2016 12:46 AM IST

    Representational ImageOpinion
    The pulse of life

    2016 is the International Year of Pulsesâ€.

    27 Jan 2016 1:06 AM IST

    Anna SwarajOpinion
    Anna Swaraj

    Mahatma Gandhi’s spinning wheel and Gandhi’s ghani (the indigenous cold press oil mill) are both symbols of...

    30 Dec 2015 7:23 AM IST

    Paris and peaceOpinion
    Paris and peace

    Humanity sta-nds at a pr-ecipice. Mer-ely 200 years of the age of fossil fuel has driven species and biodiversity to...

    2 Dec 2015 7:16 AM IST

    West’s ‘fail-anthropy’Opinion
    West’s ‘fail-anthropy’

    In 2008, before the climate summit in Copenhagen, I wrote the book Soil Not Oil. It was a time when the intimate...

    4 Nov 2015 7:05 AM IST

    A soil pilgrimageOpinion
    A soil pilgrimage

    I have just returned from a soil pilgrimage undertaken to celebrate the International Year of Soil and renew our...

    8 Oct 2015 1:04 PM IST

    The food dharmaOpinion
    The food dharma

    Dharma” is a unique Indian concept, a gift of Indian civilisation to humanity. It has provided the compass for...

    9 Sept 2015 11:40 AM IST

    GMO in my mustardOpinion
    GMO in my mustard

    India is the home of oilseed diversity — coconut, groundnut, linseed, niger, mustard, rapeseed, safflower and...

    12 Aug 2015 12:56 PM IST

    Eat localOpinion
    Eat local

    We have an epidemic in India of food and lifestyle related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, hypertension, infertility...

    15 July 2015 12:21 PM IST

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