"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." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated 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.
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