Editing Vandana Shiva (section)

==Career==
Vandana Shiva has written and spoken extensively about advances in the fields of agriculture and food. [[Intellectual property rights]], [[biodiversity]], [[biotechnology]], [[bioethics]], and [[genetic engineering]] are among the fields where Shiva has fought through activist campaigns. She has assisted [[grassroots]] organisations of the [[Green movement]] in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland, and Austria with opposition to advances in agricultural development via genetic engineering.

In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rfste.org|title=RFSTE, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, India|website=rfste.org|access-date=17 February 2018}}</ref> This led to the creation of [[Navdanya]] in 1991, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade.<ref name="Encyclopædia Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Navdanya | title=Navdanya Indian agricultural project | encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica | access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> Navdanya, which translates to "Nine Seeds" or "New Gift", is an initiative of the RFSTE to educate farmers of the benefits of maintaining diverse and individualised crops rather than accepting offers from monoculture food producers. The initiative established over 40 seed banks across India to provide regional opportunity for diverse agriculture. In 2004 Shiva started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for [[sustainable living]] in Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, in collaboration with [[Schumacher College]], UK.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/about/vandana-shiva|title=Vandana Shiva|date=25 July 2014|work=Schumacher College|access-date=10 April 2018|archive-date=13 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413010042/https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/about/vandana-shiva|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the area of intellectual property rights and biodiversity, Shiva and her team at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology challenged the [[biopiracy]] of neem, basmati and wheat. 

In 1990, she wrote a report for the FAO on Women and Agriculture titled "Most Farmers in India are Women". She founded the gender unit at the [[International Centre for Mountain Development]] (ICIMOD) in [[Kathmandu]] and was a founding board member of the [[Women's Environment & Development Organization|Women's Environment & Development Organisation]] (WEDO).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-business-school/conferences-and-business-events/fair-trade-international-symposium-2018/about-dr-vandana-shiva/|title=About Dr Vandana Shiva – University of Portsmouth|website=www2.port.ac.uk|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525092012/http://www2.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-business-school/conferences-and-business-events/fair-trade-international-symposium-2018/about-dr-vandana-shiva/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://law.wisc.edu/gls/documents/dr_shiva_bio.pdf|title=BIOGRAPHY of Vandana Shiva|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-date=29 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629180657/http://law.wisc.edu/gls/documents/dr_shiva_bio.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She received the [[Right Livelihood Award]] in 1993, an award established by Swedish-German philanthropist [[Jakob von Uexkull]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Vandana Shiva |url=https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/vandana-shiva/ |publisher=Right Livelihood |access-date=9 September 2022}}</ref>

Shiva's book ''Making Peace With the Earth'' discusses biodiversity and the relationship between communities and nature. "Accordingly, she aligns the destruction of natural biodiversity with the dismantling of traditional communities—those who 'understand the language of nature'".<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Wright|first=David|date=December 2014|title=Making Peace With the Earth|journal=Australian Journal of Environmental Education|volume=30|issue=2|pages=274–275|doi=10.1017/aee.2015.4}}</ref> David Wright wrote in a review of the book that to Shiva, "the Village becomes a symbol, almost a metaphor for 'the local' in all nations".<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Making Peace with the Earth: Beyond Resource, Land and Food Wars|last=Shiva|first=Vandana|publisher=Spinifex Press|year=2014|isbn=9781742198385|location=North Melbourne|pages=274–275}}</ref>

Shiva has also served as an advisor to governments in India and abroad as well as non-governmental organisations, including the International Forum on Globalization, the [[Women's Environment & Development Organization|Women's Environment & Development Organisation]] and the Third World Network. She chairs the Commission on the Future of Food set up by the Region of [[Tuscany]] in Italy and is a member of the Scientific Committee that advised former prime minister Zapatero of Spain. Shiva is a member of the Steering Committee of the Indian People's Campaign Against [[WTO]]. She is a councilor of the [[World Future Council]]. Shiva serves on Government of India Committees on Organic Farming. She participated in the [[Stock Exchange of Visions]] project in 2007.

In 2021, she advised the government of Sri Lanka to ban inorganic fertilizers and pesticides<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-16|title=Sri Lanka's shift towards organic farming|url=https://navdanyainternational.org/sri-lankas-shift-towards-organic-farming/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Navdanya international}}</ref><ref name=verma>{{cite news |last1=Verma |first1=Monica |title=How Environmental Wokeness Cost Sri Lanka Its Food Security |url=https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/the-indian-connection-behind-sri-lankas-disastrous-environmental-wokeness-4962938.html |access-date=25 May 2022 |work=News18 |date=11 April 2022}}</ref> stating "This decision will definitely help farmers become more prosperous. Use of organic fertilizer will help provide agri products rich with nutrients while retaining the fertility of the land."<ref name=sgl>{{cite news |last1=Ravi Shanker |first1=Kapoor |title=Sri Lankan crisis: When green fanatics get taken seriously |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/sri-lankan-crisis-green-fanatics-get-taken-seriously |access-date=25 May 2022 |work=The Sunday Guardian Live |date=9 April 2022}}</ref> The policy applied overnight, with the main purpose to save State foreign exchange bills on imported fertilizers,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-04-15|title= Is organic farming responsible for Sri Lanka's economic crisis?|publisher= Down To Earth|url= https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYnkhBux9WU|access-date=2022-04-15}}</ref> caused [[2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis#Agricultural crisis|a crisis]] with a significant reduction of farming output in several sectors, hitting the tea industry in particular<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 September 2021 |title=Organic food revolution in Sri Lanka threatens its tea industry |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/1/organic-food-revolution-sri-lanka-tea-industry |access-date=2021-09-05 |publisher=Al Jazeera|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-08|title=Sri Lanka Going Organic: Rethink the strategy; Agriculturists Write to President |publisher= The Sri Lankan Scientist|url=https://scientist.lk/2021/06/08/sri-lanka-going-organic-rethink-the-strategy-agriculturists-write-to-president/|access-date=2021-09-05}}</ref><ref name="Perumal 2021">{{cite web | last=Perumal | first=Prashanth | title=Explained – What caused the Sri Lankan economic crisis? | website=The Hindu | date=6 September 2021 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/business/explained-what-caused-the-sri-lankan-economic-crisis/article36314148.ece | access-date=6 September 2021}}</ref> and reducing rice yields were by one third.<ref name=sgl/> The ban was overturned seven months later.<ref name=verma/>