The Vandana Shiva Reader
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The Vandana Shiva Reader

  1. 364 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Vandana Shiva Reader

About this book

"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity."—Wendell Berry, from the foreword

Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty.

In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration.

This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Gendered Politics of Food
  7. 2 Science and Politicsin the Green Revolution
  8. 3 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
  9. 4 Hunger by Design
  10. 5 Monocultures of the Mind
  11. 6 Toward a New Agriculture Paradigm
  12. 7 Can Life Be Made? Can Life Be Owned?
  13. 8 The Seed and the Earth
  14. 9 Seeds of Suicide
  15. 10 Seed Freedom— What Is at Stake
  16. 11 Food and Water
  17. 12 Soil, Not Oil
  18. 13 The GMO Emperor Has No Clothes
  19. Appendix
  20. Selected Bibliography
  21. Copyrights and Permissions
  22. Index