Dr.
Vandana Shiva
Author's
books include:
- Water
Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
- Stolen
Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
- Staying
Alive: Women, Ecology & Development
- Biopiracy:
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
- Protect
or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights
- Monocultures
of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
- Breakfast
of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction
- Earthwork:
Women and Environments
- Staying
alive : women, ecology, and survival in India
- Tomorrow's
Biodiversity
- Patents:
Myths and Reality
- Towards
sustainable aquaculture, Chenmmeenkettu
- Ecology
and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India
- Environment
crisis & sustainable development
- Close
to Home: Women Reconnect
- Minding
Our Lives: Women from the South & North Reconnected Ecology &
Health
- Indigenous
Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World
- Forest
resources, crisis & management
- Biodiversity
conservation : whose resource? whose knowledge?
- Corporate
Hijack of Water
- Corporate
Hijack of Food
- Corporate
Hijack of Agriculture
- Corporate
Hijack of Biodiversity
- Vitamin
A Deficiency
- Campaign
against Biopiracy
- Diversity-
The Hindustan Way An ecological history of food and farming in India
(Volume I)
- Sharing
Earth's Harvest- Creating Abundance or Scarcity An ecological history
of food and farming in India (Volume II)
- An ecological
history of food and farming in India- Volume I & II
- Yoked
to Death- Globalization and Corporate Control of Agriculture
- Seeds
of Suicide- The ecological and human costs of Globalization of Agriculture
Author's Books Description:
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations
are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The
water wars of the twenty-first century may match -- or even surpass --
the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution
and Profit. By Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Stolen
Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
In this book, the renowned environmentalist and activist charts how corporate
control of food and the globalization of agriculture are robbing millions
of their livelihoods and their right to food, and the related impact this
has on the environment and the quality and healthfulness of the foods
we eat. Topics covered include genetically engineered...
Staying
Alive: Women, Ecology & Development
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Biopiracy:
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
In this intelligently argued and ethically principled book, internationally
renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest
frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological
and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the
atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted,...
Protect
or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Vandana Shiva shows how protection of intellectual property is being transformed
into corporate plunder, looking at how Western-inspired laws do not stimulate
human creativity or knowledge This compelling book looks at what technologies
and inventions can be exploited for profits -- an issue that lies at the
heart of the so-called "knowledge...
Monocultures
of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Breakfast
of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction (more books like
this)
By
Dr.
Vandermeer, John, and Shiva, Vandana (Foreword by), and Perfecto, Ivette
Earthwork: Women and Environments
By
Dr.
Hope, Diane, and Shiva, Vandana
Staying
alive : women, ecology, and survival in India
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Tomorrow's Biodiversity
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
It is received wisdom for today's politicians and scientists that the
only way to produce enough food for a growing global population is to
clear and claim more land for agriculture, to specialize in certain high-yield
crops, and to utilize every chemical and technological aid, including
genetic engineering, to promote growth. This is also highly...
Patents:
Myths and Reality
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Towards
sustainable aquaculture, Chenmmeenkettu
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana, and Karir, Gurpreet, and Research Foundation for Science,
Technology & Natural Resource Policy
Ecology
and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Environment
crisis & sustainable development
By
Dr.
Bahuguna, Sunderlal, and Shiva, Vandana, and Buch, Mahesh N.
Papers presented at the Conference on Global Development and Environment
Crisis, 1987, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Close
to Home: Women Reconnect
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Minding
Our Lives: Women from the South & North Reconnected Ecology &
Health
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana
Indigenous
Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World
By
Dr.
Sefa Dei, George J. (Editor), and Shiva, Vandana (Foreword by), and Goldin-Rosenberg,
Dorothy (Editor)
Forest
resources, crisis & management
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana, and Meher-Homji, V. M., and Jayal, N. D., and Sahabat
Alam Malaysia
Papers presented at the Conference on Forest Resources Crisis in the Third
World organized by Sahabat Alam Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia, during 6-8
Sept. 1986.
Biodiversity
conservation : whose resource? whose knowledge?
By
Dr.
Shiva, Vandana, and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage
Papers presented to the INTACH Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation, People's
Knowledge, and Intellectual Property Rights held on 7-8 November 1994,
New Delhi, India.
Corporate
Hijack of Water
How World Bank, IMF and GATS- WTO rules are forcing water privatization
Vandana Shiva/ Radha Holla Bhar/ Afsar H. Jafri/ Kunwar Jalees December,
2002
Corporate
Hijack of Food
How World Bank and WTO are pushing the poor to Starvation Vandana Shiva/
Radha Holla Bhar/ Afsar H. Jafri/ Kunwar Jalees December, 2002
Corporate
Hijack of Agriculture
How Trade Liberalization and Market Access rules of WTO are killing farmers
Vandana Shiva/ Radha Holla Bhar/ Afsar H. Jafri/ Kunwar Jalees December,
2002
Corporate
Hijack of Biodiversity
How WTO- TRIPS rules promote corporate hijack of people's biodiversity
and knowledge
Vandana Shiva/ Radha Holla Bhar/ Afsar H. Jafri December, 2002
Vitamin
A Deficiency
Green Solutions vs Golden Rice Vandana Shiva/ Upasana Singh 2001
Campaign
against Biopiracy
By Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri, Shalini Bhutani November, 1999
Diversity-
The Hindustan Way An ecological history of food and farming in India (Volume
I)
By Dr. Vandana Shiva, Radha Holla Bhar 2001
Sharing
Earth's Harvest - Creating Abundance or Scarcity An ecological history
of food and farming in India
(Volume II) By Dr. Vandana Shiva, Radha Holla Bhar 2001
An ecological
history of food and farming in India- Volume I & II
By Dr. Vandana Shiva, Radha Holla Bhar 2001
Yoked
to Death- Globalization and Corporate Control of Agriculture
By Dr. Vandana Shiva January 2001
Seeds
of Suicide- The ecological and human costs of Globalization of Agriculture
By Dr. Vandana Shiva, Afsar H. Jafri, Ashok Emani, Manish Pande December
2000
Message
From Dr. Shiva Vandara
"Sixteen
years ago I founded the Research Foundation as a small independent initiative
to do research in a participatory mode with people, not on them - and
to do research with an interdisciplinary approach, - reflecting the interconnections
in the web of life, not teaching them apart with reductionist violence.
These 16
years of participatory action oriented ecological research have bought
deep fulfillment - and triggered some changes in paradigms.
Diversity
is fast moving into the defining metaphor in place of monocultures of
the mind. Ecofeminism has emerged as a serious challenge to Cartesian
reductionism and the Baconian "rape of nature" as the "masculine
mode" of knowing. Globalisation is however threatening to the ecological
gains of the past few decades. It is therefore the defining context of
our new engagements.
We are concerned
with the impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on life forms as
extolled by TRIPs (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) under
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). This is one of many issues
put forth from the viewpoint of India' two-thirds economy - the rural
poor, who are experiencing further marginalisation as "beneficiaries"
of India's structural adjustment program dictated by the IMF and World
Bank.
Today, the
world is on the brink of a biological diversity crisis. The constantly
diminishing store of biodiversity on our planet poses an enormous environmental
threat - of which far too few people are aware.We here in India, are working
towards increasing awareness to the importance of conserving our valuable
genetic heritage, while challenging and opposing the forces responsible
for its rapid erosion and usurpation. Join us in the struggle and research
for sustainability and justice in these turbulent and uncertain times."
Vandana
Shiva
We
are working on the following issues:
Biodiversity
Conservation, Food Security, Globalisation, Economic Liberalisation, Impact
of Structural Adjustment in India, Patenting and Intellectual Property
Rights, Biopiracy, Biotechnology, Biosafety, Toxics and Hazardous Wastes,
Aquaculture, Plant Breeders' Rights and Farmers' Rights over their seed,
Sustainable Agriculture, WTO and GATT.
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