Democracy & Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva discusses the corporatization of the rural economy in India and the efforts to resist it. “I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its local capacities to use to meet its needs as a basic element of freedom, the economic pillar of political freedom, is becoming increasingly relevant.”
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. She’s a physicist, scholar and social activist. She is a founder of Navdanya and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. She said, “I started Navdanya, nine seeds, as a political act so that farmers would have free seeds in their hands. Using that free seed, they would be able to resist the kind of control system that corporations were trying to establish in India. Through those seeds, they can establish sustainable organic agriculture again.” She is the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of many books, including Water Wars, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Oneness vs the 1%, and Terra Viva.
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