Vandana Shiva

The re­forms pro­mot­ed by Prime Min­is­ter Singh do not go far enough to help food pro­duc­tion and the hun­gry.

Iron de­fi­cien­cy was not cre­at­ed by na­ture and we can get rid of it by be­com­ing co-cre­ators and co-pro­duc­ers with na­ture.

Con­trary to its claims, Mon­san­to’s mo­nop­oly on seeds in In­dia are the root cause be­hind the sharp in­crease in sui­cides.

The duty of a state that claims to be de­mo­c­ra­t­ic is to guar­an­tee safe­ty and free­dom to its “weak­est cit­i­zens”.

The Del­hi gang rape vic­tim has trig­gered a so­cial rev­o­lu­tion – we must sus­tain it, deep­en it, ex­pand it, notes au­thor.

Or­gan­ic farm­ing is the “only way to pro­duce food” with­out harm­ing the plan­et and peo­ple’s health.

In­dus­tri­al­i­sa­tion of agri­cul­ture cre­ates hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion, de­stroy­ing the food web to which we all be­long.

Most coun­tries are mov­ing back­wards, en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly speak­ing – though Ecuador and Bhutan are no­table ex­cep­tions.

None of us are im­mune to cli­mate change, or the ef­fects it will have on the earth and our en­vi­ron­ment.

The eco­nom­ics of the fu­ture is based on peo­ple and bio­di­ver­si­ty – not fos­sil fu­els, tox­ic chem­i­cals and mono­cul­tures.