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Vandana Shiva is an Indian physician and philosopher, as well as a scholar, environmental activist, author. Based in Delhi, she is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization and renowned in the anti-globalization movement.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Survival in India

Shiva's powerful narratives allow us to hold a piece of food in our hands and, in a thought process we have never been taught to follow, lets us trace backwards the story of the land it was grown on, the cultural and economic toll on the ecosystem and people, the sacrifice endured so that it might...

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Making Peace with the Earth

In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalization in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact.

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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva.

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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis “the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

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Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods.

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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana shiva charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat.

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Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet, as Vandana Shiva shows, what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times.

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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology

Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the south in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment, and the position of women in society coincide.

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Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically.

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