The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
