Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Time: 15:00 UTC
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onet.ipbes@gmail.comDr. Vandana Shiva is a renowned food sovereignty advocate, an activist, a trained physicist, and author of numerous books and publications. She completed her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and later shifted to interdisciplinary research in science, technology, and environmental policy at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in India. In 2004 Dr. Shiva started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in collaboration with Schumacher College, U.K. Earth University is a place to learn from nature and sustainable traditions and holistic knowledge systems.
For nearly four decades, Dr. Shiva has been an environmental activist that has supported the concept of food sovereignty, the right of peoples to healthy and indigenous foods cultivated through fundamental ecologically sound, regenerative methods. Through her activism, her work has assisted over 5 million farmers in the conservation of more than 3,000 varieties of rice, and established over 60 seed banks in 16 states across India. Dr. Shiva maintains that agrobiodiversity, the complex system of plants, animals, and soil organisms are essential to preserve food security in a sustainable agricultural system.
Through her books Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, Dr. Shiva has made visible the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate led globalisation. Dr Shiva stands behind the belief that the biological wealth of countries from the global South was too often appropriated by global corporations that neither sought their hosts’ consent nor shared the profits.
