Vandana Shiva: Creating a Sustainable Way of Agricultural Development

December 21, 2022

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

About Changemaker

Vandana Shiva

In Dehradun, Vandana Shiva was born. Her father was a keeper of the woods, and her mother was a peasant with a passion for the outdoors. She received her education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Dehradun as well as St. Mary’s Convent High School in Nainital.

Shiva received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Punjab University in Chandigarh in 1972. She traveled to Canada in 1977 to earn a master’s degree in the philosophy of sciences at the University of Guelph after a short tenure at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Variations in the notion of the regularity of light were the subject of her dissertation. While pursuing her Ph.D. in philosophy at Western Ontario University in 1978, she concentrated on the theory of physics. In her dissertation, she looked at the philosophical and conceptual implications of concealed varying concepts that Bell’s theory does not address. She then carried on her study in the fields of science, innovation, and climate regulation at Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institute of Management.

Awards

She received the Right Livelihood Prize in 1993, also referred to as the “Independent Nobel Prize.” She is a talented writer who has contributed to several journals, joined the board of the Global Forum on Capitalism, and sits on the committee of the World Future Commission.

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