Description
In Terra Viva, Dr. Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working toward a livable planet and healthier democracies. For the very first time, she also recounts the stories of her childhood in post-partition India – the influence of the Himalayan forests she roamed; her parents, who saw no difference in the education of boys and girls at a time when this was not the norm; and the Chipko movement, whose women were “the real custodians of biodiversity-related knowledge.” Throughout, Shiva’s pursuit of a unique intellectual path marrying quantum physics with science, technology, and environmental policy will captivate the reader.
Contents:
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Trees of Life: Saving the Forest
Seeds of Freedom: Towards Food Security
Diverse Women for Diversity
Against Appropriation: GATT & WTO
The Great Water Capture
No Patents on Life!: Biodiversity & Biotechnologies
Staying Alive: Climate Chaos/Climate Action
We are the Biome, We are the Virome
Reviews
“All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.” – Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace
“Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of globalisation] whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.” – Russell Brand
“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.” – The Guardian
Product details
Published 2022
Chelsea Green Publishing
Paperback, b&w, 250 pages
ISBN: 9781645021889
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’, and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them Oneness vs. the 1%: Making Peace with the Earth: Soil Not Oil Globalization’s New Wars: Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard: Who Really Feeds the World?
Shiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); the Save the World Award (2009); the Sydney Peace Prize (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). She was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012.
Connect with the author here: navdanyainternational.org
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