Navdanya | Diverse Women for DiversityDr. Vandana Shiva combines the highest of holistic, systems science with activism; she joins resistance to giant corporations seeking to privatize and own seed and water with building alternatives so that the basis of life stays in the commons and supports all life.
* * *What is unique about Dr. Shiva is she effortlessly combines scientific research with action, resistance with constructive creative action to build alternatives and grassroots involvement with global transformation.
As a thinker and public intellectual, she has contributed to a paradigm shift from violent predatory, exploitative science, technology and economic organization to non-violent, compassionate, cooperative systems of knowledge, production and consumption.
Among Vandana Shiva's many honors is the Right Livelihood Award—also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”—for her work in placing women and ecology at the center of the international development agenda. She is the author of more than 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals, and her book-length publications include: Soil Not Oil (2008), Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (2010), Violence of the Green Revolution (2011).
Stephanie Doty
Women’s Issues Matter
May 27, 2014
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