My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic… — 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
The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he… — 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
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Its not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. Its making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take… — 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
