Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shivais an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books...
country doctors way
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.
faces able shakti
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
children thinking growth
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
violence needs patterns
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
children men eggs
I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didn’t even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of women—of embryos, of eggs, of bodies—by a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasn’t freedom from men but total control by men.
fun fighting thinking
I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.
girl thinking india
I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
father swimming apples
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
life letting-go art
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
democracy
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
way taught students
I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
agriculture care sustainability
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
web-of-life whatever-happens happens
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
thinking glamour globalization
I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.