Articles by Navdanya International
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Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism – In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.
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New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.
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Bio-Imperialism vs. Bio-Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Seeds are the connections between our lives, our food, our health and our freedom; the first link in the food chain. The cultivation of seeds and their free exchange is the foundation of our biodiversity and our food security. To have control over seeds is to have control over our lives, our food and our freedom.
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Regenerating Our Planet, Regenerating Our Health
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
22 Apr 2024 – The health of the planet and the health of the people are One, maintained through the cycles of food, life, and regeneration. We are part of nature and of its complex living processes. The earth, food and our bodies are interconnected living systems.
→ read full articleRegenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
12 Dec 2023 – Industrial agriculture sees the world as a machine, not as a self-organized living system, and has created devastation contributing to climate change. Our latest report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop28 in Dubai, analyzes the causes of climate change and the regenerative solutions vis-a-vis the false solutions by polluters.
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Regeneration Is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate Crisis
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Nov 2023 – On the occasion of the 28th Climate COP. There are two main paradigms of thinking of ourselves in the world and of our relationship with the Earth. We either think of ourselves as being separate from Nature or as being one and part of it.
→ read full articleSoil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.
→ read full articleBeyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.
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Nothing New in New GMOs
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – A new report exposes the corporate interest behind the gene editing business.
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Navdanya International Press Office – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Synthetic foods are the next generation of ultra-processed foods through the hyper-processing of industrially produced crops, a combination of processed and artificial ingredients produced through synthetic biology and cell-culturing.
→ read full articleFreedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.
→ read full articleOpen Letter from ‘Diverse Women for Diversity’ to World Leaders
Navdanya International Press Office – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – ¨Diverse Women for Diversity¨, meeting together in Dehradun, India, representing 17 nationalities and multiple cultures, welcome and support the decision of the Mexican government to phase out GMOs and glyphosate. We are outraged and dismayed that the US government is bullying Mexico to impose GMO transgenic corn in violation of Mexico´s sovereignty.
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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.
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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.
→ read full articleWhat Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva
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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.
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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.
→ read full articleThe Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Foreword by Dr Vandana Shiva, President of Navdanya International – How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? Technological solutions aim to replace animal products and other food staples with lab-grown alternatives. Artificial food advocates are reiterating the old and failed rhetoric that industrial agriculture is essential to feed the world.
→ read full articleG7: Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – Our Bread, Our Freedom Campaign
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – G7 should stop promoting hunger by design and support movements for Food Sovereignty and Agroecology. The current globalized, industrial agrifood system is a food system that creates hunger by design.
→ read full articleHow Finance Is Speculating on the Wheat Crisis – Interview with Dr Vandana Shiva
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – We met Vandana Shiva, president of Navdanya International, to talk about the global situation, rising inequalities and the worrying obesity figures released by the WHO. Global issues which have immediate repercussions on the local.
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Biodiversity Is Health
Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
22 May 2022 – To celebrate World Biodiversity Day, we present Biodiversity Is Health. We break down how all levels of biodiversity have a direct and tangible tie to human health, especially as an intimate connection exists between the biodiversity of our diets and gut, and our surrounding ecosystems, making health a continuum. Biodiversity is, hence, needed at every level of the food system.
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Mar 2022 – How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? Its advocates are reiterating the old and failed rhetoric that industrial agriculture is essential to feed the world. Real, nutrient-rich food is gradually disappearing, while the dominant industrial agricultural model is causing an increase in chronic diseases and exacerbating climate change.
→ read full articleThe Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
→ read full articleClimate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26
Navdanya International (Vandana Shiva) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – The same line of thinking and actions that are driving climate change is leading to biodiversity loss, extinction of species, and the hunger, malnutrition, and health emergencies. The climate crisis is a symptom of the broader ecological crisis being perpetuated by an extractivist and profit-driven system.
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The Poison Cartel Is Poisoning the World, Driving Species to Extinction, and Contributing to Hunger
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
1 Aug 2021 Pachamama Day – The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically. Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.
→ read full articleUNFSS – Where Multinationals Continue to Design Our Food Systems and Control Our Diets
Navdanya International | Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past and current Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, have denounced, this summit is yet another instrument to reinforce corporate control over food and agriculture, while attempting to restrain civil society’s role in global food governance.
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Bill Gates & His Fake Solutions to Climate Change
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This latest report from Navdanya International details the reasons behind Bill and Melinda Gates’ attempts to focus the debate on miraculous technologies and their real interests. While Gates’ many investments are all seemingly justified by a noble humanitarian and environmental cause, the report shows that they actually allow him to impose his techno-solutionist strategies through direct influence over all types of protagonists.
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The Black January of Agribusiness: GMOs Rejected over Three Continents
Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
19 Jan 2021 – It is a black January for agribusiness lobbyists and stakeholders. Mexico, Peru and Tanzania closed the doors to GMOs, while the Italian government was pushed, by a pervasive civil society campaign, not only to confirm the ban to the old generation of GMOs but also to new generations, including New Breeding Techniques (NBTs).
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Environmental and Farmers Organizations in Italy Stop Government Attempt to Give Green Light to GMOs and NBTs
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 – Twenty six farmers organisations, environmental movements and consumer associations in Italy collectively launched a powerful campaign this week, which prevented the government from passing 4 bills inspired by the agribusiness lobby and proposed by the Minister of Agriculture to permit GMOs and other New Breeding Techniques to enter the country.
→ read full articleThe Lobby behind Italy’s Opening to GMOs
Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
On December 22, a parliamentary process in favor of GMOs and new breeding techniques has begun at the Italian Chamber’s Agricultural Commission. A very risky path, since it could lead to the cultivation of GMOs without any public or scientific debate. Such a decision could prove “irreversible.”
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Is Philanthro-Capitalism Endangering Sustainable Development?
Navdanya International | LifeGate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
26 Oct 2020 – The latest report by Navdanya International aims to investigate the role and actions of one of the most influential private foundations – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
→ read full articleThe Philanthro-Capitalist Empire of Bill Gates
Manlio Masucci | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
3 Nov 2020 – To continue to impose the old and failed policies of neoliberalism through new narratives, new make-up, new promises. Capitalism has been able to wear many masks throughout its history, but philanthropy is certainly one of the most vicious and dangerous. Especially when behind the veil of donations and aid there are powerful economic entities capable of directly influencing policies of the world’s rulers.
→ read full articleTechnological Solutionism Will Not Save Our Food Systems
Carla Ramos Cortés | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – Although most international actors agree that our current food system is broken, not all agree on how this call for ‘food systems transformation’ should go. Now, the COVID public health crisis and its resulting economic devastation have accelerated calls to respond through the ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism through embracing the fourth industrial revolution.
→ read full articleGates to a Global Empire
Navdanya international - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Over Seed, Food, Health, Knowledge …and the Earth -The report gathers evidence and throws light on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems, manipulating information and eroding our democracies. Over the last 30 years it has emerged as a major force, able to derail the international agenda and push our future and the future of our planet towards extinction and ecological collapse.
→ read full articleGates’ Ag One: The Recolonisation of Agriculture
Navdanya International | Independent Science News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – IICA announced partnerships with Microsoft, Bayer, Corteva ( subsidiary of DuPont), and Syngenta, all along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We can start to see a repeating pattern with all these alliances in the launching of Ag One. Through the Gates Foundation’s promotion of chemical and genetically modified inputs, they open up isolated or hard to reach markets in Africa, South Asia and Latin America for private corporations to derive profits.
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The Path beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
Message for World Environment Day, 5 Jun 2020 – On 31st May, while people were dying during the Corona Pandemic, while millions had lost their livelihoods and were going hungry during the “lockdown”…, billionaire Elon Musk launched Space X. For me this was a brutal display of the hubris, indifference and power of the 1% who have pushed ecosystems, communities, countries and humanity to the brink.
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World Bee Day: Poisons Mean Extinction for Bees and Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots.
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May Day Message
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
1 May 2020 – We are witnessing 3 pandemics simultaneously: The Corona Pandemic, the Hunger Pandemic, and the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods. We are One Humanity on One Planet. Autonomy, meaning, dignity, work, freedom, democracy are our birthright.
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Earth Day Communiqué
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 April 2020 – The health emergency we face as a global community is strictly connected to the health emergency the Earth is facing. This Earth Day over 500 organisations, movements and leaders from over 50 countries call for integrated action putting the health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet at the centre of government and institutional policy, community building and civic action.
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Ecological Reflections on the Corona Virus
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
One Planet, One Health–Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests to our farms to our gut microbiome – We are one Earth Family on one planet , healthy in our diversity and interconnectedness. The planet’s health and our health is non separable .
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Growing Gardens of Diversity Weaving Gardens of Love
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020 – Diversity is the Hindustan Way. In these times of limitless greed and manufactured division and hate, we resist by living and thinking through, and with, our diversities as one humanity on one planet. We grow gardens of Diversity. We weave garlands of love.
→ read full articleOikonomia: Bringing the Economy Back to the Earth
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Today’s Big Money is also anti nature. It is based on a paradigm of hyper anthropocentrism; of the continued assumption that nature is dead matter, and domination, conquest and control over the earth through violent tools and technologies is the “civilizing” mission of the men with Big Money. It is based on owing life though patents, privatization and enclosures of the commons, and the hubris of trying to engineer the planet through geo engineering.
→ read full articleMonsanto Is Not Gandhi: Crimes against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced that farmers will illegally plant Bt Brinjal as a “Satyagraha”. This is outright criminal action. Farmers acting on behest of Monsanto are criminals and will be treated as such.
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Industrial Agriculture, Based on War Technologies, Kills Millions of Species: Agroecology Is the Future
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
It Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction – Corporations of the Poison Cartel have given us decades of ecocide, genocide through war chemicals. As the alternative, Agroecology includes all chemical free ecological farming systems, including Organic Farming, Permaculture, Biodynamic Agriculture, and different schools of natural farming.
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We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate Crisis
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity–an abundance of different living organisms and ecosystems–that can meet all our needs and sustain life. We can repair the Earth’s ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.
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Education and Knowledge Can Stop the Fake “Science” of Multinationals That Is Leading the Planet and Society to Collapse
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
Now that the dominant model is showing its inadequacies and failures, we must necessarily recognize the plurality of knowledge systems and the potential of their integration, which is essential to increase our capacity for survival as a species. Adaptation in times of turbulence requires maintaining high levels of freedom and choice. This requires diversity in all its forms.
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(Italiano) La «Madre terra» trasformata in colonia delle multinazionali
Manlio Masucci | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
24 ottobre 2019 – Viviamo in un’epoca di grande concentrazione economica, dove il capitale, accumulato da un numero ristretto di individui, ha la capacità di ridurre i governi a propri agenti con il fine di alimentare la macchina dello sfruttamento delle persone e del pianeta. Questo sistema, che spesso indossa la maschera bonaria del filantropismo e ama rifarsi il trucco attraverso operazioni di greenwashing, genera crisi economiche, sanitarie, ambientali, politiche.
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