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Vandana Shiva - Two Paths to the Future of Food and Farming - EcoFarm 2020 Keynote

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Published on 30 Aug 2020 / In Film and Animation

Dr. There are two paths to the future of our food and farming. The first
path is made by walking
with nature, co-creating
and co-producing with
sensitivity, intelligence
and care with diverse
species, the living earth
and her complex web of
life. This is the path of
life which has sustained
humanity in its diversity
over millennia. Each
community and culture
has co-evolved its own distinctive path according to its climates, soils and biodiversity, and contributed to the diversity of food and farming systems. The diversity of cultures of food and agriculture are united through the common and perennial principles on which life is based. Today these common principles practised by diverse schools of ecological agriculture--organic farming, permaculture, biodynamic farming, natural farming, etc.--are referred to as Agroecology. This is the path to the future.
The second path is the industrial path based on fossil fuels and poisons. This path is the path of death. It
goes against the principles of nature and life. It violates the principle of diversity and imposes monocultures and uniformity. It violates the principle of giving back and extracts from nature and farmers, disrupting ecological sustainability and social justice. It is the path to biodiversity extinction and climate catastrophe, of destruction of small farms and displacement of farmers, and the spread of hunger, malnutrition and chronic diseases. Walking further and faster down the path of extinction is not an intelligent choice.
Ecological agriculture is an ethical, ecological and survival imperative.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned scholar and tireless crusader
for economic, food,
and gender justice. Dr. Shiva was trained as
a physicist, and later shifted her focus to interdisciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science,
Technology and Ecology, which was dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times
in close partnership with local communities and
social movements. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement in India to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, and to promote organic farming and fair trade. In 2004, in collaboration with Schumacher College, U.K., she started Bija Vidyapeeth (Earth University), an international college for sustainable living in the Doon Valley in Northern India. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Forbes magazine in November 2010 identified Dr. Vandana Shiva as one of the top Seven most Powerful Women on the Globe. Among her many awards are the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, 1993), Order of the Golden Ark, the UN’s Global 500 Roll of Honour, and The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity in 2016.

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