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In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT centers of Bangalore to the villages of Uttar Pradesh,...
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A synthesis of more than three decades of interdisciplinary research and practice, Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: An Evidence-based Guide to Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change, provides evidence-based solutions to some of the world's most pressing crises in global ecology, agriculture, and public health.
Featuring the work of Navdanya, an organization founded by Dr. Vandana Shiva that promotes agroecology, seed...
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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including...
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Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy gathers evidence that details the dangers of corporate and individual billionaire philanthropic "developments" in agricultural technology, food, knowledge, and global health systems. Such philanthropy allows a select elite few to manipulate information and policy for their own profit, thus undermining democracies and communities globally. Over the last 30 years philanthrocapitalism has emerged as a...
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Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top one percent of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet - and all its people - to the social and ecological brink.
In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people...
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Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the "Gandhi of Grain," "a rock star" in the battle against GMOs, and "the most powerful voice" for people of the developing world. For over four decades, she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localization, and real democracy; she has been at the forefront of seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction of nature, the polarization of societies,...
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La humanidad se ha acostumbrado a habitar al borde de un precipicio llamado sexta extinción. La propagación de políticas neoliberales, la consolidación de nuevas formas de colonialismo, la exaltación del consumo ilimitado, la equiparación de violencia y progreso cuestionan la posibilidad misma de sobrevivir. Vandana Shiva, destacada representante del "ecofeminismo", nos alerta: todo ello es fruto de la alianza entre patriarcado y capitalismo.
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10) Circle of Poison
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Once a pesticide is banned in the United States for dangerous health and environmental effects, companies are still permitted to manufacture it for export only. This policy sends a message to the world that American lives are more valuable, yet ironically, these toxic pesticides come back to the US as residues on imported food in a circle of poison. CIRCLE OF POISON takes viewers across the globe to document the emotional stories of victims and the...
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In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. Ten chemical companies control two-thirds of the seed market. SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY follows passionate seed-keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. These farmers, scientists, and indigenous people are fighting a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource...
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The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. In this collection of galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, science fiction writers give readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe. From...
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