The Contemporary Status of Agriculture | Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva has been fighting industrialized and commodified food systems since the 1980s. In her presentation at #MAD3 she describes how decades ago her gut feeling led her to become a food activist. Since then she has started Navdanya which to date is made up of 120 community seed banks in 17 states of India. Many seed banks are now running independently of Navdanya’s support. Navdanya has also trained and created awareness amongst 750,000 farmers in seed sovereignty, food sovereignty, and sustainable agriculture over the past two decades, and helped setup the largest direct marketing, fair trade and organic network in the country. More than 4000 rice varieties have been collected, saved, and conserved by Navdanya in last 26 years. Multitudes of food crops left behind by the Green Revolution and monoculture cropping, such as millets, pseudo-cereals, and pulses, have been conserved and promoted by Navdanya.

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