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  • Specialty Physics, social activism.
  • Topics Ecology, biodiversity, environmental justice.
  • Current Position Founder and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE).

Who is she? Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist and social activist, known for her advocacy for biodiversity and environmental justice. With a master’s in Philosophy of Science and a doctorate in Quantum Physics, Shiva has worked on major ecological campaigns and is a prominent critic of the Asian Green Revolution.

Vandana Shiva delivers lectures on ecology, sustainability, and the negative impacts of industrial agriculture, inspiring global audiences to adopt sustainable farming practices and fight for environmental justice.

  • Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.
  • The Future of Food.
  • Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization.
  • Eco-feminism.
  • Bio-imperialism and GMO Contamination.
  • Solutions to the Food and Ecological Crisis We Face Today.

    • Shiva is a frequent presence in international media, with appearances in documentaries, interviews, and reports on ecology and sustainability.

    Books

  • Making Peace with the Earth.
  • Earth Democracy.
  • Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge.
  • She founded the RFSTE in 1982 in her mother’s cowshed in Dehra Dun, India.
  • She has worked to stop deforestation and the construction of large dams in India.
  • A staunch critic of the Green Revolution, she argues it has led to biodiversity loss and chemical dependency in agriculture.

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