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Book Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, ecofeminist and food sovereignty advocate based in Delhi, celebrated worldwide as a champion of seed diversity and small farmers. Her research foundation, started in 1982, led in 1991 to Navdanya, a national movement dedicated to protecting native seeds and promoting organic farming. Nicknamed the "Gandhi of grain," she has written over twenty books, among them Staying Alive (1988), The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (1991), Monocultures of the Mind (1993), Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil (2015), a contribution to This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (2019) and Slow Living (2026), co-written with Shreya Jani. Her honors include the Right Livelihood Award (1993), the Blue Planet Award (2007), the LennonOno Grant for Peace (2008), the Sydney Peace Prize (2010), the Thomas Merton Award (2011), the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (2012), the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity (2016) and a place on the BBC 100 Women list in 2019. A board member of the International Forum on Globalization, Shiva is a passionate, galvanizing speaker on food, ecology and the future of the planet.
- Born in Dehradun
- Notable work: Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics, Earth Democracy
- Category: Speaker
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Milestones
- Received the Right Livelihood Award
- Received the Blue Planet Award
- Received the LennonOno Grant for Peace
- Received honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University
- Received the Sydney Peace Prize
- Received the Thomas Merton Award
- Received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
- Received The Glass of Reason
- Received the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity
- Received the BBC 100 Women
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