[Salon] Vandana Shiva: Decolonising the Global Economy

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, author of numerous books and a tireless defender of the environment. She is the Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology, a Board Member of the International Forum on Globalization, the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights. She fights for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. In 1993, she received the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' Other awards include the Order of the Golden Ark, Global 500 Award of the UN, Earth Day International Award, the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace, and the Sydney Peace Prize 2010. In 2003, Time magazine identified Shiva as an 'environmental hero' and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

GOOD READS

Terra Viva: My life in a biodiversity of movements (2022), Oneness Vs. The 1%. Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom, Women Unlimited (2018), Who Really Feeds The World (2016), Making Peace With The Earth (2013), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge (2011, 1997). 

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