Vandana Shiva

The Vandana Shiva Reader

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The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings—with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.
Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential environmental and anti-globalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty.
In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. This essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration.
This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.
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488 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    This is equivalent to twelve 9/11s. I was forced to sit up and ask why agriculture had become like war.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    It was becoming increasingly evident that scientific expertise worked more in the service of capital and forces abetting the destruction of nature.
  • Lili Joaquínhas quoted4 years ago
    I realized that humanity had cultivated a “monoculture of the mind,” which created a blindness to diversity and its potentials, a blindness that blocked out the high productivity of biodiverse systems in forests, in agriculture, in the oce

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