Vandana Shiva Biography

In alliance with individuals like Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, Vandana Shiva is a well-known environmental activist and thinker who has spent the last 30 years working to bring about the change she wants to see. She left academia to form the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, a public-interest research group, after discovering that science and technology predominantly served the interests of the wealthy and powerful. Similar to how she started Navdanya, Hindi for "nine seeds" in reference to the nine crops that provide India's source of food security, protect biodiversity, uphold farmers' rights, and encourage organic farming, when she discovered that multinational corporations wanted to patent seeds and crops. Shiva is the author of several books, most recently Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. She is a key figure in the International Forum on Globalization, with Nader and Rifkin. She spoke at the World Economic Forum in Melbourne and the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Shiva has been recognized for her dedication to social justice with the Sydney Peace Prize and the Alternative Nobel Prize Right Livelihood Award. She was honored as an environmental hero by Time magazine, and Asia Week named her one of the continent's top five communicators. Vandana Shiva recounts her experiences as an environmental activist in moving keynote speeches, ranging from promoting wholesome, high-quality food for customers to supporting farmers' rights and biodiversity.

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