Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, is director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology and Ecology. Her many books include Ecofeminism (with Maria Mies, Zed Books, 2014) and Earth Democracy (Zed Books, 2016). She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (1993).
Introduction 1. Agroecology feeds the world
not a violent knowledge paradigm 2. Living soil feeds the world
not chemical fertilizers 3. Bees and butterflies feed the world
not poisons and pesticides 4. Biodiversity feeds the world
not toxic monocultures 5. Small-scale farmers feed the world
not large-scale industrial farms 6. Seed freedom feeds the world
not seed dictatorship 7. Localization feeds the world
not globalization 8. Women feed the world
not corporations 9. The way forward