Bøger af Vandana Shiva

Award-winning activist and bestselling author Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and takes her place at the forefront of the fightback.

Terra Viva was originally published in India in 2022 by Women Unlimited.

Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.

Connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. This book shows how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.

"e;Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity."e; -- Wendell Berry, from the forewordMotivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.*BR**BR*Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world's devastated eco-landscape, one of genetic engineering, industrial development and land-grabs in Africa, Asia and South America. She concludes that exploitation of this order is incurring an ecological and economic debt that is unsustainable.*BR**BR*Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and economics is our only chance of survival and how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism.

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. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.

In this groundbreaking work, two world-renowned scholars argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements?Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva offer a thought-provoking analysis of these and many other issues from a unique North-South perspective. They critique prevailing economic theories, conventional concepts of women's emancipation, the myth of 'catching up' development, the philosophical foundations of modern science and technology, and the omission of ethics when discussing so many questions, including advances in reproductive technology and biotechnology.In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, these two internationally respected feminist environmental activists look to the potential of movements advocating consumer liberation and subsistence production, sustainability and regeneration. They argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity and a rejection of exploitation, the endless commoditization of needs, and violence.

Originally published: Cambridge, MA: South End Press, c2002.

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, c2005.

The preeminent agricultural activist and scientist of a generation, Shiva implores the farmers and consumers of the world to make a united stand against the genetically modified crops and untenable farming practices that endanger the seeds and plants that give us life.

In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

Originally published: South End Press, 2008.

First published in 2018 in India by Women Unlimited.

"An in-depth look at agroecology, an alternative to the world's current food crisis"--provided by publisher.

This books provides "an interdisciplinary synthesis of research and practice carried out over decades by leaders of the agroecology and regenerative organic agriculture movement. It [analyses] the multiple crises we face due to chemical and industrial agriculture, including land degradation, water depletion, biodiversity erosion, climate change, agrarian crises, and health crises. [It also] lays out biodiversity-based organic farming and agroecology as the road map for the future of agriculture and sustainable food systems. ... With detailed scientific evidence, Agroecology & Regenerative Agriculture shows how ecological agriculture based on working with nature rather than abasing ecological laws can regenerate the planet, the rural economy, and our health"--

I Kvinder i Skoven undersøger Vandana Shiva, hvilken rolle Chipko-bevægelsen har haft i de lokale modstande mod den kolonialistiske ekstraktion i form af skovrydning, og det Shiva kalder “eukalyptiseringen”, der har pågået i Indien siden den britiske koloniserings begyndelse, og hvilke konsekvenser dette såkaldte “sociale skovbrug” har haft for lokalsamfund, og særligt for kvinderne, der har levet af og i overensstemmelse med skoven og dens diverse principper.Vandana Shiva beskriver også fælledernes betydning for biodiversiteten, for den indiske husholdning og for det mangfoldige liv, der lever i de områder, der stadig fungerer som fælleder. Shiva skriver:“I dag udgør ‘ødemarksudviklingen’ det sidste skridt mod deres (fælledernes) forsvinding. N.S. Jodha, der har arbejdet meget med fællesejede ressourcer, har vist, hvordan kvinders arbejde og livsvilkårene i de fattigere dele af de rurale samfund er tæt forbundet med træer og græsningsarealer i fællesområderne, idet de understøtter husdyrene og fjerner en del af presset på det opdyrkede land, samtidig med at det øger den organiske tilførsel til planterne gennem animalsk affald.32 Små bønder og arbejdere uden jordbesiddelser kan eje husdyr takket være fælledernes eksistens. Derudover er fællesarealerne i de regnfattige områder med til at sikre de traditionelle landbrugssystemer stabilitet og levedygtighed, der gør det muligt at anvende en integreret og varieret produktionsstrategi ved at bruge afgrøder, husdyr og træer, der polstrer økonomien i de tørre områder, idet de leverer føde, foder og brændsel i de år, hvor høsten slår fejl . Næsten 10% af de fattige familiers ernæring ser ud til at komme direkte fra fællesarealerne. I de fattigste grupper er kvindernes arbejde i næringsøkonomien således tæt forbundet med fælledernes eksistens. Privatiseringen af fællesarealerne gennem ødemarksudvikling er ikke en vildfarelse, men et resultat af den dominans, der udøves af organer som Verdensbanken, og af deres ligegyldighed over for naturens behov og sårbare sociale grupper. For den form for organisationer og organer tæller selvforsyning ikke som økonomisk aktivitet.”Selvom teksten oprindeligt er skrevet i 1988, og selvom situationerne i Indien og i Danmark selvfølgelig er komplet forskellige, så berører teksten alligevel en række forhold, der gør sig gældende i den altoverskyggende finanskapitalistiske virkelighed, vi lever i, og derfor også resonerer med den konflikt, der udspiller sig omkring ‘Fælleden’ i København lige nu. Underviser, kunstner og aktivist Zeenath Hasan skriver i forordet:“Mens jeg skriver dette forord, udspiller en multi-artslig konflikt sig ikke langt fra mit skrivebord i København, hvor aktivister, ejendomsinvestorer, byplanlæggere, politi, den store vandsala-mander, medier og civilsamfund toppes om byggeplaner. Her åbenbares skellet mellem et behov for beboelser til mennesker og bevarelse af økologisk mangfoldighed. Forsoning findes dog ikke nødvendigvis ved at indtage konfliktens polære modsætningspositioner. Jeg inviterer dig til at udføre din læsning af denne oversættelse, som om du trådte igennem en portal ind til en mangfoldighed af måder at relatere til økologien på på tværs af geologisk tid, antropocentrisk overlegenhed og multi-artslige uoverensstemmelser. Før du træder igennem, så brug et øjeblik på at gøre dig bevidst om dit eget metafysiske, metaforiske, ideologiske eller ontologiske forhold til økologien. Overvej hvordan din fortolkning afspejles i ord på et stykke papir, med et like i dit nyhedsfeed, i hudfarven hos dem, der plukker bananer i en plantage, i en appel for et truet bløddyr i en anden hemisfære, i en udånding fra dine læber, i en omfavnelse gennem tiden. Læs derefter oversættelsen for at relatere dig til en ikke så fjern fortid på dine egne vilkår, og sæt dig så ind i, hvordan man kan sameksistere i den ikke så fjerne fremtid.”

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. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. As the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, corporations are now looking for new colonies to exploit and invade for further accumulationin Shiva's view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Biopiracy is a learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge.

A radical new vision for global food production, from one of the world's most iconic environmental thinkers.

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - all the ideas, technologies (including genes), and manipulation of life forms that are current can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations. This book explores and analyzes how intellectual copyright can be seen as corporate plunder.

As the agricultural systems of many countries are poised, as a result of the recent advances in biotechnology for what may soon come to be called the Second Green Revolution, this book is particularly appropriate. Vandana Shiva examines the impact of the first Green Revolution on the breadbasket of India. In a cogent empirical argument, she shows how the 'quick fix' promise of large gains in output pushed aside serious pursuit of an alternative agricultural strategy grounded in respect for the environmental wisdom of peasant systems and building an egalitarian, needs-prientated agriculture consistent with the village-based, endogenous political traditions of Gandhism. Dr Shiva documents the destruction of genetic diversity and soil fertility that resulted and in highly original fashion shows how the Green Revolution also contributed to the acute social and political conflicts now tearing the Punjab apart.Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position achieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates in its wake, the author looks to the future in an analysis of a new project to apply the latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue.

In Indien ist die Kuh heilig. Das Abschlachten von Kühen würde viele Inder empören, so kommt Rindfleisch nun als "Büffelfleisch" auf den Tisch. Statt mit dem traditionsreichen Senföl wird mit dem angeblich gesünderen Sojaöl gekocht, die Getreidevielfalt weicht Standardweizen und Standardreis. Hinter diesem Wandel der indischen Ernährungsgewohnheiten stecken die Interessen der globalen Agrarindustrie. Die indische Ökofeministin Vandana Shiva beschreibt - aus dem Blickwinkel Indiens - deren jüngste Entwicklungen: Der Anbau von Genpflanzen wird vorangetrieben, die Patentierung von Tier- und Pflanzenarten setzt sich allmählich durch, das Streben nach kurzfristigem Profit verschließt den Blick für nachhaltige Lösungen zur Bekämpfung des Welthungers. Vandana Shiva ruft zum Widerstand gegen die Arroganz der Konzerne auf und kämpft für Selbstbestimmung in Ernährungsfragen. Es darf nicht sein, dass die Agrarindustrie den Menschen die Ernährung diktiert.Das ist ein Buch für all diejenigen, die sich jenseits der konventionellen Berichterstattung über die komplexen Zusammenhänge von Welthandel, Biodiversität und Ernährung informieren möchten - Christoph Hirsch, punkt.umVandana Shiva (geboren 1952 in Indien), Physikerin, Philosophin und Aktivistin, zählt zu den herausragendsten Denkerinnen unserer Zeit, besonders wenn es um die Themen Umwelt, Frauenrechte und dezentralisierte Ökonomie geht. Sie ist u.a. Gründerin und Direktorin der Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in Neu-Delhi und Verfasserin zahlreicher Publikationen zu Ökologie, Ökofeminismus und nachhaltiger Entwicklung.

Im mexikanischen Grenzland zu den USA ist sauberes Trinkwasser so knapp, dass Mütter ihren Babys zum Trinken Coca-Cola und Pepsi geben – das Problem der Wasserverknappung betrifft immer mehr Menschen direkt und breitet sich in rasantem Tempo auf der ganzen Erde aus. Das "blaue Gold" wird in seiner Bedeutung als Rohstoff dem Erdöl bald den Rang ablaufen, bereits heute stehen hinter vielen so genannten ethnischen oder religiösen Konflikten Kämpfe um die Nutzung der knappen Wasserressourcen. Die Ursachen der Wasserverknappung sind vielfältig - industrielle Landwirtschaft, abgeholzte Wälder, Staudämme, Verschmutzung und Verschwendung -, der Kern des Problems ist jedoch immer derselbe: Der Kreislauf des Wassers ist zerstört, die Wasserquellen können sich nicht mehr regenerieren. Weder staatliche Kontrolle noch Privatisierung können die Situation entschärfen: Der Ausweg ist eine Rückkehr zu althergebrachten, gemeinschaftlichen Systemen der Wasserbewirtschaftung, die in vielen Regionen über Jahrhunderte funktioniert haben, bis sie dem Fortschritt oder der Gier der Mächtigeren geopfert wurden.Ein Buch, dessen Lektüre jedem, der in irgendeiner Weise gesellschaftliche oder politische Verantwortung trägt, Pflicht sein sollte - Andreas ViereckeVandana Shiva (geboren 1952 in Indien), Physikerin, Philosophin und Aktivistin, zählt zu den herausragendsten Denkerinnen unserer Zeit, besonders wenn es um die Themen Umwelt, Frauenrechte und dezentralisierte Ökonomie geht. Sie ist u.a. Gründerin und Direktorin der Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in Neu-Delhi und Verfasserin zahlreicher Publikationen zu Ökologie, Ökofeminismus und nachhaltiger Entwicklung.

In this wide-ranging collection, eminent scholars, theologians, activists, and lay farmers illuminate how religious beliefs influence and are influenced by the values and practices of sustainable agriculture.

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.