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"Agriculture is supposed to be about #biodiversity, about caring for the land," says Vandana Shiva @drvandanashiva. "The history of industrial agriculture is a very recent mistake, and it must be corrected." #GLFBonn2020 pic.twitter.com/RDWv4fpPrg
— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020
“300 new infectious disease have emerged as agribusiness with an inefficient model of producing commodities has invaded forest #ecosystems,"points out @drvandanashiva “How many pandemics will be created to maintain the lie that this is a productive system?”#GLFBonn2020 pic.twitter.com/hVOcQWQfK9
— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020
Ecological agriculture can address climate change, hunger and disease. Agriculture is about care for the earth; we must treat the planet with love.
-Vandana Shiva, Scholar and environmental activist#GLFBonn2020 @drvandanashiva pic.twitter.com/w4YkmhGnr5— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020
"Why are most of the hungry people today farmers? Not because farming leads to deprivation but because an economic model of agriculture is dispossessing the farmers."
-Vandana Shiva, Scholar and environmental activist#GLFBonn2020 @drvandanashiva @DeutscheWelle pic.twitter.com/EAFslnTyhX— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020
Pandemics can only be dealt with if we make a shift. Not only do we need #biodiversity on the land, we need to shift our focus away from crop yield.
-Vandana Shiva, Scholar and environmental activist#GLFBonn2020 @drvandanashiva pic.twitter.com/CdTLR9xxso— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020
"I know we can move from a system that degrades the land, degrades our health, degrades the farmers, to a regenerative farming that replenishes the earth," asserts Vandana Shiva @drvandanashiva at #GLFBonn2020.
"This is a system that works." pic.twitter.com/PPcDldjoIk
— Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) (@GlobalLF) June 4, 2020