Which Future of Food and Farming
Reflections on World Food Day 16th October 2015, By Dr Vandana Shiva
Sardinia Terra Via, Sardigna Terra Bia
Open letter to the Sardinian society The letter shows that « Sardinians strongly request a change, being aware of the opportunity of life in a land still rich in biodiversity, despite the suffered damage and which can still get rid...
International Workshop on Global Health
The sub-headline of the event organized by ISDE Italy and ISDE Sardinia (International Society of Doctors for the Environment), in cooperation with Navdanya International, was ‘Sardinia Terra Viva – Sardigna Terra Bia’
“Laudatu Si” – A 21st century Manifesto for Earth Democracy
by Dr Vandana Shiva – L’Huffington Post Italia, 19 June 2015 Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.it/vandana-shiva/la-laudato-si-manifesto-del-21-secolo-terra_b_7620852.html Most reports of Pope Francis’s Encyclical in the press before the formal launch yesterday reduced this path breaking document with 246 paras on the contemporary...
Pope Francis: A new ecological Paradigm is necessary
by Manlio Masucci, 17 June 2015 “Pope Francis has shown all of humanity that being truly human means giving up the arrogance of being masters and owners of nature and diverse species Most importantly he has shown that ecological...
Biodiversity Or Gmos: Will the Future of Nutrition be in Women’s Hands or Under Corporate Control?
Women have been the primary growers of food and nutrition throughout history, but today, food is being taken out of our hands and substituted for toxic commodities controlled by global corporations. Monoculture industrial farming has taken the quality, taste...
Bhoole Bisre Anaj (Forgotten foods)
A full account of India’s forgotten foods – millets & their nutrition value & recipes. Millets are wonder seed and its nutritional value is incomparable with wheat. This book strongly advocates Millets as our primary food for the sake...
Health per Acre
India is faced with a triple food crisis – an agrarian crisis, the tragic symptom of which is 250,000 farmers’ suicides, the rising food prices and food inflation and the hunger and malnutrition crisis. All three crises have common...
Manifestos of the International commission on the future of food and agriculture
The Manifesto on the Future of Food develops in detail principles on which to base the transition to a sustainable food and agricultural system as outlined in the Florence Declaration on the Global Rights to Food. Most importantly it...