Editing Vandana Shiva (section)

== Activism ==
Her work on agriculture started in 1984 after the violence in Punjab and the [[Bhopal disaster]] caused by a gas leak from [[Union Carbide India Limited|Union Carbide]]'s pesticide manufacturing plant. Her studies for the UN University led to the publication of her book ''The Violence of the Green Revolution''.<ref>[https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203863204574345290928452448 Fight Droughts with Science: Better crops could ease India's monsoon worries], Henry I. Miller, Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405172549/http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/UMN_home/know/The_father_of_the_22Green_Revolution22.html|archive-date=5 April 2009|url=http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/UMN_home/know/The_father_of_the_22Green_Revolution22.html|title=The Father of The 'Green Revolution'|publisher=University of Minnesota|date=25 February 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://www.scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=116 Father of the Green Revolution – He Helped Feed the World!] ja "Determining the Number Norman Borlaug – The Green Revolution", ScienceHeroes.com Tohtori Amy R. Piercen mukaan useimmat lukuisista arvioista yli miljardista ihmishengestä perustuvat ennustettuihin nälänhätiin, jotka jäivät toteutumatta, ja ovat epävarmoja. Piercen mukaan silti vaikutus kuolleisuuteen oli todella näin suuri, koska ravitsemus vaikuttaa niin voimakkaasti lapsikuolleisuuteen ja elinikään.</ref>

In an interview with [[David Barsamian]], Shiva argues that the seed-chemical package promoted by green revolution agriculture has depleted fertile soil and destroyed living ecosystems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatogether.org/vandana-interviews|title=India Together: Monocultures of the mind: Write the editors – 01 April 2003|date=April 2003 |publisher=Indiatogether.org|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> In her work Shiva cites data allegedly demonstrating that today there are over 1400 pesticides that may enter the [[food system]] across the world.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/14322|title=To Spray or Not to Spray: Pesticides, Banana Exports, and Food Safety|series=Policy Research Working Papers |year=2002 |publisher=Elibrary.worldbank.org\accessdate=20 January 2015|doi=10.1596/1813-9450-2805 |last1=Wilson |first1=John S. |last2=Otsuki |first2=Tsunehiro |hdl=10986/14322 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Shiva is a founding councillor of the [[World Future Council]] (WFC).  The WFC was formed in 2007 "to speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations."  Their primary focus has been on climate security.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prof. Dr Vandana Shiva|url=https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/vandana-shiva/|access-date=2021-01-13|website=World Future Council|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204172108/https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/p/vandana-shiva/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She supports the crime of [[ecocide]] being introduced to the [[International Criminal Court]] stating ''"The ideal of limitless growth is leading to limitless violations of the rights of the Earth and of the rights of nature. This is ecocide".''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supporters of Ecocide Law |url=https://www.stopecocide.earth/supporters |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Stop Ecocide International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Ecofeminist Vandana Shiva, how to quit well, Shekeila Scarlett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwsz |access-date=2023-06-21 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

===Seed freedom===
Vandana supports the idea of seed freedom, or the rejection of patents on new plant lines or cultivars. She has campaigned against the implementation of the WTO 1994 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights [[TRIPS Agreement|(TRIPS) agreement]], which broadens the scope of patents to include life forms. Shiva has criticised the agreement as having close ties with the corporate sector and opening the door to further patents on life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/global/vshiva4_int.html|title=Interview with Vandana Shiva – The Role of Patents in the Rise of Globalization / Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine|publisher=Inmotionmagazine.com|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Shiva calls the patenting of life 'biopiracy', and has fought against attempted patents of several indigenous plants, such as basmati.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Megarhetorics of Global Development|last=Schell|first=Eileen|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|date=January 2012|isbn=9780822961727|url=http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36243|pages=170|access-date=30 November 2017|archive-date=17 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917070726/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36243|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005, Shiva's was one of the three organisations that won a 10-year battle in the [[European Patent Office]] against the biopiracy of [[Neem]] by the [[US Department of Agriculture]] and the corporation [[WR Grace]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4333627.stm|title=Science/Nature – India wins landmark patent battle|publisher=BBC News|access-date=20 January 2015|date=9 March 2005}}</ref> In 1998, Shiva's organisation [[Navdanya]] began a campaign against the biopiracy of basmati rice by US corporation [[RiceTec]] Inc. In 2001, following intensive campaigning, RiceTec lost most of its claims to the patent.

===Golden rice===
Shiva strongly opposes [[golden rice]], a breed of rice that has been genetically engineered to biosynthesise beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. Shiva contends that Golden Rice is more harmful than beneficial in her explanation of what she calls the "Golden Rice hoax": "Unfortunately, Vitamin A rice is a hoax, and will bring further dispute to plant genetic engineering where public relations exercises seem to have replaced science in promotion of untested, unproven and unnecessary technology... This is a recipe for creating hunger and malnutrition, not solving it."<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dr. Vandana Shiva |title=THE "GOLDEN RICE" HOAX – When Public Relations replaces Science |url=http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html |publisher=[[San Francisco State University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821091432/http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html |archive-date=21 August 2018 |date=29 June 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Adrian Dubock says that golden rice is as cheap as other rice and vitamin A deficiency is the greatest reason for blindness and causes 28% of global preschool child mortality.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/response-zac-goldsmith-golden-rice-gm-food No, Zac Goldsmith, golden rice is not 'evil GM'. It saves people's lives], Adrian Dubock, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 4 November 2013.</ref> Shiva has claimed that the women of Bengal grow and eat 150 greens which can do the same,<ref>[http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/chcbriefing.html Can Biotechnology Help Fight World Hunger?], CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER BIOTECH BRIEFING. Washington D.C., Capital Hill, 2012.</ref> while environmental consultant [[Patrick Moore (consultant)|Patrick Moore]] suggests that most of these 250 million children do not eat much else than a bowl of rice a day.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/by-opposing-golden-rice-greenpeace-defies-its-own-values-and-harms-children/article14742332/ By opposing Golden Rice, Greenpeace defies its own values – and harms children], ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', 15 October 2013.</ref> In the 2013 report "The economic power of the Golden Rice opposition", two economists, Wesseler and Zilberman from [[Munich University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] respectively calculated that the absence of Golden Rice in India had caused the loss of over 1.4 million lives in the previous ten years.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1017/S1355770X1300065X| title = The economic power of the Golden Rice opposition| journal = Environment and Development Economics| pages = 1| year = 2014| last1 = Wesseler | first1 = J. | last2 = Zilberman | first2 = D. | volume = 19| issue = 1| s2cid = 43511056| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2014EDevE..19..724W}}</ref>

===GM, India and suicides===
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According to Shiva, "Soaring seed prices in India have resulted in many farmers being mired in debt and turning to suicide". The creation of seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides, and [[agrarian distress]]. According to data from the Indian government, nearly 75 percent of rural debt is due to purchased inputs. Shiva claims that farmers' debt grows as [[GMO]] corporation's profits grow. According to Shiva, it is in this systemic sense that GM seeds are those of suicide.

[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI) twice analysed academic articles and government data and concluded the decrease and that there was no evidence on "resurgence" of farmer suicide.<ref>[http://www.ifpri.org/publication/bt-cotton-and-farmer-suicides-india Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India: Reviewing the evidence], International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2008. Abstract, page 27 and Figure 11.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/01/29/vandana-shiva-anti-gmo-celebrity-eco-goddess-or-dangerous-fabulist/3/ |title=Vandana Shiva, Anti-GMO Celebrity: 'Eco Goddess' Or Dangerous Fabulist? |author=Jon Entine |author2=Cami Ryan |magazine=Forbes |date=29 January 2014}}</ref>