Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
Vandana ShivaNature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Vandana ShivaYou are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Vandana ShivaWe are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
Vandana ShivaThe reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.
Vandana Shiva