Dr. Vandana Shiva is a passionate advocate of socially and ecologically sustainable development. She is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author.

Dr. Shiva is founder and director of Navdanya: Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, an organization and movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights. Based in Uttranchal, north India, Navdanya is dedicated to high quality and independent research to address ecological and social issues of our times.
Dr. Shiva is on the board for the International Forum on Globalization, an international research and educational organisation.

In addition to her academic and research contributions, Dr. Shiva has served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as NGOs such as the International Forum on Globalisation, Women's Environment and Development Organisation and Third World Network.

Dr. Shiva is recognised for her contributions to the fields of women and environment, biodiversity, biotechnology and intellectual property rights and ecological issues related to agriculture.

Received the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations (UN) for her dedicated commitment to the preservation of the planet as demonstrated by her actions, leadership and by setting an example for the rest of the world.

Books

Water Wars
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Ecofeminism with Maria Mies
The Violence of the Green Revolution : Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
Monocultures of the Mind : Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology, editor with Ingunn Moser
Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Consequences

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