The chairman of Navdanya International and the director of the Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (India), Vandana Shiva is a well-known environmentalist, activist, feminist, scholar, scientist, author, and supporter of science policy.
She established the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (RFSTE) in 1982, an unbiased scientific organization that tackles the most important ecological issues of the day, and Navdanya (‘nine seeds’), a campaign to support local farmers and ecology, two years after that. She co-formed the global committee on the sustainability of agriculture and food in 2011 with the then-President of the Region of Tuscany. She also established Navdanya International in Italy in the same year and served as its chairwoman.
Her contribution toward agricultural development
1. She has been referred to as an “eco-warrior goddess,” the “Gandhi of grains,” and the “superstar” of the anti-GMO campaign.
2.The Indian physicist-turned-ecologist and nourishment rights activist Vandana Shiva has been fighting big agriculture for even more than 40 years, insisting that we can finish food insecurity and protect the earth even while conserving the specific cultural and cooking customs that contribute to our world’s incredibly rich diversity.
3.Shiva is a person who believes that what we eat counts the most. It sculpts our physiological, social, and intellectual identities.
4. Shiva is steadfastly committed to reminding us that “food and tradition are the wealth of life” and that you cannot have one without another by advocating for increased food independence, conservation, and seed privileges for regional farmers all over the world.
She has organized, aided, and gained knowledge through local groups in India on a variety of subjects. She has established herself as among the most persuasive proponents of counter-development in support of interactive, people-centered approaches, particularly at global forums. As a thinker, she has written several significant books and essays that have significantly shaped and addressed the discussion and topic around growth
