Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with Earth Democracy, or, as she prophetically names it, “The People’s Project for a New Planetary Millennium.” A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures and living democracies.Starting from the initial enclosure of the commons—the privatization of six million acres of public land in eighteenth-century Britain—Shiva goes on to reveal how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and fenced. Accompanying this displacement from formerly accessible territory, she argues, is a growing attitude of disposability that erodes our natural resources, ecological sustainability and cultural diversity. Worse, human beings are by no means safe from this assignment of disposability. Through the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion work in deadly synergy to perpetrate violence on vulnerable groups, extinguishing the lives of millions.Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend shaping human history. Forthright and energetic, Vandana Shiva updates readers on the movements, issues and struggles she helped bring to international attention—the genetic engineering of food, the theft of culture and the privatization of natural resources—and deftly analyzes the successes and new challenges the global resistance now faces. From struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world has grown a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons and freely sharing the earth’s resources. These ideals, which Shiva calls “earth democracy,” will serve as unifying points in our current movements, an urgent call to peace and the basis for a just and sustainable future.

Product Description: En Cosecha robada, Vandana Shiva muestra los efectos de la agricultura globalizada --la de las grandes compañías-- sobre los pequeños agricultores, el medio ambiente y la calidad de los alimentos que comemos. El libro incluye capítulos que abordan temas como el de las semillas modificadas genéticamente, las creaciones de monopolios sobre la vida y los recursos de la tierra, o la relación entre las vacas locas y las vacas sagradas, así como el acalorado debate que actualmente se está produciendo sobre una cuestión en apariencia tan intrascendente como la cría del langostino...read more

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An examination of the 'water-war' of the 21st century: the progressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights. While drought and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits.

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Product Description: Physicist, philosopher and feminist, the author is a leading activist against environmental destruction. Here she puts forward her vision of a sustainable agriculture future for the world. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Indigenous knowledges are understood as the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This definition refers to the epistemic saliency of cultural traditions, values, belief systems and world views that, in any indigenous society, are imparted to the younger generation by community elders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that global corporations, industrial agriculture, and genetic engineering have robbed the earth of its biodiversity and natural resources, and offers solutions to the crisis by focusing on the principles of ecological agriculture.

Product Description: Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically. This Reader brings together some of the most important work from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Goldsmith, Edward, Khor, Martin, Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Shiva, Vandana

This volume contains a number of essays by women who explore the impact of developmental pressures and environmental decay on their own lives. The topics discussed include AIDS, toxic waste, ethnic conflict, peasant movements, sex determination, women's rights and biotechnology.

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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 posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Conservation of Biodiversity is gaining centre stage for the environmental movement as (tropical) forests are fast disappearing, complex agriculture systems are transformed into monocultures, and about 25% of the world's flora and fauna species may be lost over the next generation...read more

Product Description: Conservation of Biodiversity is gaining centre stage for the environmental movement as (tropical) forests are fast disappearing, complex agriculture systems are transformed into monocultures, and about 25% of the world's flora and fauna species may be lost over the next generation...read more

Product Description: "In this volume, through case studies of forest conflicts and water conflicts in India, the authors have exposed the grim situation in a forceful and logical manner. Its logic does not remain confined to the Indian boundaries alone but extends to all over the world in general...read more

Product Description: Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin...read more