Vandana Shiva

responsible to educate them about the issue? The corrupt government, greedy corporate, media that is a puppet in the hands of both of them or social activists who earn almost nothing from their campaigns and have also quit their prominent jobs like Vandana Shiva. I think the one who is not making excess money is the correct one. They should realise that if they keep on exploiting these poor and helpless people, the issue is going to get much worse. It may even lead armed rebellion as there is…

about 435 wild plant and animals species of which 229 are eaten. Women are the biodiversity experts of the world. (Shiva, 2010: x-xi) For the ages together women have contributed for conserving resources and soil fertility. But industrial agriculture, biotechnology, genetic engineering, hybridization and global corporate market have grabbed their primitive knowledge of agriculture. Shiva says, “Navadanya’s studies on biodiversity-based ecological…

During the last decade Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have increasingly become a topic of mixed viewpoints. Do GMOs actually help or are they harming our ecosystem? Scientists and large corporations attempt to persuade consumers to support their conflicting perspectives. Regardless of the studies, the world continues to face a high probability of food scarcity. Companies like Monsanto, lead efforts to industrialize and streamline our food source, but many argue that it is at the expense…

The world has a surplus of food, but still people are starving. Supposedly, this surplus is not enough to fed 795 million people in the world who are undernourished. This is the issue of Malnutrition and World Hunger, which creates social disturbance, and economic instability in the developing countries, resulting poverty inclines. World hunger is a chronic problem in most of the developing countries. Hunger is not only a physical circumstance; it is an exhaust on the economic growth, and a…

The push for environmental/ecological equality came as a result of the feminist movement within the War Resisters League. Grace Paley led the charge of women becoming spokespersons, something that was only common among men at the time. This wave of feminism came about from the increasing awareness by women in the anti war movement as they were relegated to subordinate roles. More women took on leadership roles and also influenced organizing models, styles, and content. Women became leaders in…

It is no coincidence that Vandana Shiva’s essay, “Our Violent Economy is Hurting Women,” and Dave Zirin’s article, “The Verdict: Steubenville Shows the Bond between Jock Culture and Rape Culture” both open with cases of brutalized women. It is such a norm that this act is the central focus of the popular television show Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, but that comparison only draws to mind how not “special” violence against women is, and begs the question why it is so entertaining that SVU…

Since the beginning of the post-war period, thinking on how best developing or ‘Global South’ countries can advance to the level of the United States or Western Europe has been notably altered. From its origins as a colonial discourse on direct intervention to a system based on financial aid and development projects, development theories encompass a wide range of ideas from plumbing like Water Aid to exported democracy and renewable energy. Diane Elson was among several 20th-century feminist…

traditional food sources. In particular, Vandana Shiva, an anti-GM zealot, started a crusade against GM foods and accused multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations of disrupting the ecological balance for producing genetic engineering crops (Spector). As a result, people hold an unreasonably high standard toward GMOs compared to traditional food sources through complicated regulatory systems and studies to evaluate and ensure food safety.…

Throughout chapter eight, the audience is exposed to different examples of globalization. Globalization is referred to as “a contemporary form of cultural and economic integration facilitated by electronic media, international financial institutes, trade agreements, and national immigration policies” according to Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey (Kirk and Okazawa 2013,G-3). In other words, globalization is how different nations interact, exploring each other’s cultures, and sometimes adopting…

Francoise D’ Eaubonne was the first to coin the term “ecofeminism”, a movement combining feminism and environmentalism. Feminism is defined as the movement of women towards social and economic equality between men and women. Ecology is the study of humans and their interactions with the environment. Many aspects within the feminist movement, the peace movement, and the environmentalist and green movements can be seen within ecofeminism. Ecofeminists and ecofeminism is the belief that…