Nov 29 2010
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Physicist, Philosopher, Environmental Activist, Eco Feminist & Author
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. She is a councillor of the World Future Council. Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns. She has served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as non governmental organisations, including the International Forum on Globalization, the Women’s Environment & Development Organization and the Third World Network.
“Vandana Shiva is author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals”
Vandana Shiva received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists. The founder of Navdanya “nine seeds”, a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India.[/expand]
One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, Vandana Shiva has been recognised by Time magazine as an environmental hero, and Asia Week called her one of the five most powerful communicators in Asia. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology and a prolific author, she illustrates to audiences the undeniable connection between industrial agriculture and climate change, acting as your bridge to understanding how we can feed the planet in a socially just, environmentally sound way.[/expand]
In her trademark style, Vandana Shiva is inspiring, gripping, compassionate and unflinching with a fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner. She is a truly compelling and powerful speaker who has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India and who draws solutions to our world’s most pressing problems.[/expand]
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Topics
Alternatives to Globalization and War
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Water Wars: Pollution, Profits & Privatization
Publications
2008
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
2005
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
2000
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
1989
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development – This book helped redefine perceptions of third world women
Awards & Recognition
In 1993, Vandana received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’).
Other awards she has received include the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1993,[8] and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations (UN) for her dedicated commitment to the preservation of the planet as demonstrated by her actions, leadership and by setting an example for the rest of the world.
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