Who Really Feeds the World?

978-93-85606-10-6

Women Unlimited, 2017

Language: English

132 pages

5.5"x8.5"

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Who really feeds the world? Vandana Shiva believes the answer to this question lies, first, in dismantling the myths that surround the industrial mode of food production which relies heavily on chemical inputs and seed monopolies; and then examining the costs and benefits of monocultures vs. biodiversity; soil depletion vs. soil regeneration; sustainable agriculture vs. cash-cropping; localisation vs. globalisation; and co-operative farming vs. corporate profit. In this succinct and clear-eyed assessment of the world’s food crisis, Shiva contends that food and agriculture have become the sites for major paradigm wars. Caught in the cross-fire between small producers and corporate giants, are the one billion people in the world who suffer from hunger and malnutrition; and the thousands afflicted with diseases caused by toxins in our food.

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’ and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of several influential books, including Oneness vs the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom; Making Peace with the Earth; Soil Not Oil; Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard; and Who Really Feeds the World?

Shiva is the recipient of over 20 international awards, among them the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); the Sydney Peace Prize (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). She was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012.