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{{Short description|Indian philosopher, scientist and environmentalist}}
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| caption            = Shiva in 2014
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1952|11|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Dehradun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br/>(now in [[Uttarakhand]]), [[India]]
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| occupation         = Philosopher, environmentalist, author, professional speaker, social activist, physicist
| alma_mater         = [[Panjab University, Chandigarh]]<br>[[University of Guelph]]<br>[[University of Western Ontario]]
| awards             = [[Right Livelihood Award]] (1993)<br>[[Sydney Peace Prize]] (2010)<br>
[[Mirodi Prize]] (2016)<br>[[Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize]] (2012)
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| website            = navdanya.org
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'''Vandana Shiva''' (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian [[scholar]], [[environmental activist]], [[food sovereignty]] advocate, [[ecofeminist]] and [[anti-globalization]] author.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121028084032/http://www.unep.org/women_env/w_details.asp?w_id=107 Who's Who of Women and the Environment – Vandana Shiva]. [[United Nations Environment Programme]] ([[UNEP]]). Last visited 2012.</ref> Based in [[Delhi]], Shiva has written more than 20 books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navdanya.org/publications|title=Vandana Shiva's Publications|access-date=24 February 2011|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220004123/http://www.navdanya.org/publications|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is often referred to as "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with the [[Genetically modified food controversies|anti-GMO]] movement.<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=BBC Travel|title=Vandana Shiva on why the food we eat matters|date=28 January 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210127-vandana-shiva-on-why-the-food-we-eat-matters|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref>

Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (with [[Jerry Mander]], [[Ralph Nader]], and [[Helena Norberg-Hodge]]), and a figure of the anti-globalisation movement.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2swUg4ZKTgsC&q=vandana+shiva+leader+of+the+international+forum+on+globalization&pg=PA999|author=Chattergee, D.K.| title=Encyclopedia of Global Justice, A-I Vol. 1 |access-date=22 October 2014|isbn=9781402091599|year=2011|publisher=Springer }}</ref> She has argued in favour of many traditional practices, as in her interview in the book ''Vedic Ecology'' (by [[Ranchor Prime]]). She is a member of the scientific committee of the [[IDEAS Foundation for progress|Fundacion IDEAS]], Spain's [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|Socialist Party's]] think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society.<ref>[http://www.iopsociety.org/interim-committee International Organization for a Participatory Society – Interim Committee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228205219/http://www.iopsociety.org/interim-committee |date=28 February 2021 }} Retrieved 25 September 2012</ref>

==Early life and education==
[[File:Vandana shiva 20070610.jpg|thumb|Vandana Shiva in [[Cologne, Germany]], in 2007|262x262px]]

Vandana Shiva was born in [[Dehradun]]. Her father was a conservator of forests, and her mother was a farmer with a love for nature. She was educated at [[St. Mary's Convent High School, Nainital]], and at the [[Convent of Jesus and Mary]], Dehradun.<ref name=fifty>Joy Palmer, David Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran: ''Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment''. Routledge, 2002, {{ISBN|9781134756247}}, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=J7ml-rrcTboC&pg=PA313 313]</ref>

Shiva studied physics at [[Punjab University, Chandigarh|Punjab University]] in [[Chandigarh]], graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972.<ref name=shearer>Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer: ''Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary''. Greenwood Press, 1997, p. 364</ref> After a brief stint at the [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]], she moved to Canada to pursue a master's degree in the [[Philosophy of Science|philosophy of science]] at the [[University of Guelph]] in 1977 where she wrote a thesis entitled "Changes in the concept of periodicity of light".<ref name=shearer/><ref>{{cite thesis|title=Changes in the concept of periodicity of light|url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2012-09-22T06%3A42%3A18Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=29194872&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus&lang=eng|publisher=Canadian Theses Division, National Library, Ottawa|access-date=22 September 2012|author=Vandana Shiva|type=M.A. Thesis (microfiche)|year=1977|archive-date=21 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321031800/http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb-bin/aamain/itemdisp?sessionKey=999999999_142&l=0&d=2&v=0&lvl=1&itm=29194872|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1978, she completed and received her PhD in [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Western Ontario]],<ref name="newyorker.com" /> focusing on [[philosophy of physics]]. Her dissertation was titled "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory" in which she discussed the mathematical and philosophical implications of [[Hidden variable theory|hidden variable theories]] that fall outside of the purview of [[Bell's theorem]].<ref name="thesis">{{cite web |url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2012-09-22T07%3A06%3A54Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=3397435&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus&lang=eng |title=Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory / by Vandana Shiva |format=microform |publisher=Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario, 1978 |date=18 July 2008 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115101412/http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb-bin/aamain/itemdisp?sessionKey=999999999_142&l=0&d=2&v=0&lvl=1&itm=3397435 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She later went on to pursue interdisciplinary research in science, technology, and [[environmental policy]] at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and the [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore|Indian Institute of Management]] in [[Bangalore]].<ref name=fifty/>

==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=Kapoor |first1=Ravi Shanker |date=9 April 2022 |title=Sri Lankan crisis: When green fanatics get taken seriously |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/sri-lankan-crisis-green-fanatics-get-taken-seriously |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514074810/https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/sri-lankan-crisis-green-fanatics-get-taken-seriously |archive-date=2025-05-14 |access-date=25 May 2022 |work=The Sunday Guardian Live}}</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/>

== 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=https://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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In a 2013 opinion piece, Shiva wrote, "Soaring seed prices in India have resulted in many farmers being mired in debt and turning to suicide." She goes on to say that, "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]]." She then states that, "According to data from the Indian government, nearly 75 percent of rural debt is due to purchased inputs. Farmers' debt grows as Monsanto profits grow. It is in this systemic sense that GM seeds are those of suicide."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shiva |first=Vandana |date=2013-03-30 |title=Seeds of suicide and slavery versus seeds of life and freedom |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/3/30/seeds-of-suicide-and-slavery-versus-seeds-of-life-and-freedom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928225919/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/3/30/seeds-of-suicide-and-slavery-versus-seeds-of-life-and-freedom/ |archive-date=2020-09-28 |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

[[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>{{Cite web |last=Gruere |first=Guillaume |last2=Mehta-Bhatt |first2=Purvi |last3=Segupta |first3=Debdatta |date=2008 |title=Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India - Reviewing the evidence |url=https://www.ifpri.org/publication/bt-cotton-and-farmer-suicides-india/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215191756/http://www.ifpri.org/publication/bt-cotton-and-farmer-suicides-india |archive-date=2010-02-15 |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=www.ifpri.org}}</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>

==Ecofeminism==
Shiva plays a major role in the global ecofeminist movement. According to her 2004 article ''Empowering Women,''<ref name="EmpoweringWomen">[http://likeawhisper.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/empoweringwomen.pdf Dr. Vandana Shiva: Empowering Women] 10 June 2004 by [[WordPress.com]]</ref> a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved by reinstating the system of farming in India that is more centred on engaging women. She advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion," claiming that a woman-focused system would be a great improvement.<ref name="Vandana Shiva: Empowering Women">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040625184157/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/2015/story/2004/06/040609_vandana_shiva.shtml] 4 June 2004  </ref> She believes that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes threaten daily life, and the maintenance of these problems have become women's responsibility.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Ecofeminism|last = Shiva|first = Vandana|publisher = Zed Books|year = 1993}}</ref>

Cecile Jackson has criticised some of Shiva's views as [[essentialist]].<ref name="C J">Cecile Jackson: Radical Environmental Myths: A Gender Perspective, 1995</ref>

Shiva co-wrote the book ''Ecofeminism'' in 1993 with "German anarchist and radical feminist sociologist"<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Utzeri|first=Mounia|date=2017|title=Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour|journal=Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism|volume=15|via=SAGE Publications}}</ref> Maria Mies. It combined Western and Southern feminism with "environmental, technological and feminist issues, all incorporated under the term ecofeminism".<ref name=":2" /> These theories are combined throughout the book in essays by Shiva and Mies.

Stefanie Lay described the book as a collection of thought-provoking essays but also found in it a lack of new ecofeminist theories and contemporary analysis, as well as "overall failure to acknowledge the work of others".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lay|first=Stefanie|date=1994|title="Ecofeminism" by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva|journal=Institute of Race Relations|volume=36}}</ref>

==Indian Intelligence Bureau investigation==
In June 2014, Indian and international media reported that Navdanya and Vandana Shiva were named in a leaked, classified report by [[India's Intelligence Bureau]] (IB), which was prepared for the [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister's]] Office.<ref name="The Daily Telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10917731/India-targets-Prince-Charles-aide-in-war-on-Greenpeace.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10917731/India-targets-Prince-Charles-aide-in-war-on-Greenpeace.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=India targets Prince Charles' aide in war on Greenpeace |date=22 June 2014| website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London |access-date=20 January 2015|last1=Nelson|first1=Dean}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The leaked report says that campaigning activities of Indian NGOs such as Navdanya are hampering India's growth and development. In its report, the IB said that Indian NGOs, including Navdanya, receive money from foreign donors under the 'charitable garb' of campaigning for [[human rights]] or [[women's equality]], but instead use the money for ''<nowiki/>'nefarious purposes'''. "These foreign donors lead local NGOs to provide field reports which are used to build a record against India and serve as tools for the strategic foreign policy interests of the Western governments," the IB report states.<ref name="The Indian Express">{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/foreign-aided-ngos-are-actively-stalling-development-ib-tells-pmo-in-a-report/|title=Foreign-aided NGOs are actively stalling development, IB tells PMO in a report|website=[[The Indian Express]]|access-date=20 January 2015|date=7 June 2014}}</ref>

==Criticism==
Investigative journalist [[Michael Specter]], in an article in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' on 25 August 2014 called "Seeds of Doubt",<ref name="newyorker.com">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt|title=Vandana Shiva's Crusade Against Genetically Modified Crops – The New Yorker|date=25 August 2014|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> raised concerns over a number of Shiva's claims regarding GMOs and some of her campaigning methods. He wrote: "Shiva's absolutism about G.M.O.s can lead her in strange directions. In 1999, ten thousand people were killed and millions were left homeless when a cyclone hit India's eastern coastal state of Orissa. When the U.S. government dispatched grain and soy to help feed the desperate victims, Shiva held a news conference in [[New Delhi]] and said that the donation was proof that 'the United States has been using the Orissa victims as guinea pigs' for genetically-engineered products, although she made no mention that those same products are approved and consumed in the United States. She also wrote to the international relief agency [[Oxfam]] to say that she hoped it wasn't planning to send genetically modified foods to feed the starving survivors."<ref name="newyorker.com" />

Shiva responded that Specter was "ill informed"<ref name="ShivaResponse" /> and that "for the record, ever since I sued Monsanto in 1999 for its illegal Bt cotton trials in India, I have received death threats", adding that the "concerted PR assault on me for the last two years from Lynas, Specter and an equally vocal Twitter group is a sign that the global outrage against the control over our seed and food, by Monsanto through GMOs, is making the biotech industry panic."<ref name="ShivaResponse">{{Cite web|url=http://vandanashiva.com/?p=105|title=Seeds of Truth – A response to The New Yorker {{!}} Dr Vandana Shiva|website=vandanashiva.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826092608/http://vandanashiva.com/?p=105|archive-date=26 August 2018|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> [[David Remnick]], the editor of the ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'', responded by publishing a letter supporting Specter's article.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/09/02/new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-responds-to-vandana-shiva-criticism-of-michael-specters-profile/|title=New Yorker editor David Remnick responds to Vandana Shiva criticism of Michael Specter's profile|date=2 September 2014|newspaper=Genetic Literacy Project|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

Cases of plagiarism have been pointed out against Shiva. Birendra Nayak noted that Shiva copied verbatim from a 1996 article in Voice Gopalpur in her 1998 book ''Stronger than Steel'',<ref>Birendra Nayak: Of 'Saviours' and Feet of Clay. Economic and Political Weekly. 4 March 2000</ref> and that in 2016, she plagiarised several paragraphs of an article by S Faizi on the Plachimada/Coca-Cola issue published in ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kerala-based-ecologist-s-faizi-accuses-vandana-shiva-plagiarism-40348 | title=Kerala based ecologist S Faizi accuses Vandana Shiva of plagiarism| date=16 March 2016}}</ref>

Journalist [[Keith Kloor]], in an article published in ''[[Discover Magazine|Discover]]'' on 23 October 2014 titled "The Rich Allure of a Peasant Champion", revealed that Shiva charges $40,000 per lecture, plus a [[business-class]] air ticket from New Delhi. Kloor wrote: "She is often heralded as a tireless 'defender of the poor,' someone who has courageously taken her stand among the peasant farmers of India. Let it be noted, however, that this champion of the downtrodden doesn't exactly live a peasant's lifestyle."<ref name="Discover Magazine">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/10/23/rich-allure-vandana-shiva/#.VG7vKfmUeSo|title=The Rich Allure of a Peasant Champion|website=Collide-a-Scape|access-date=20 January 2015|date=23 October 2014|archive-date=1 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201225025/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/10/23/rich-allure-vandana-shiva/#.VG7vKfmUeSo|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Stewart Brand]] in [[Whole Earth Discipline]] described some of Shiva's statements as pseudo-scientific, calling her warnings about "heritable sterility" (''Stolen Harvest'', 2000) a "biological impossibility" but also plagiarism from Geri Guidetti, owner of the seed supplier company Ark Institute, and a "distraction" created by inflating the potential of [[Genetic use restriction technology|terminator genes]] based on a single 1998 patent granted to a US company.<ref name=":0" /> Brand also criticised the position of anti-GMO activists, including Shiva, who forced [[Zambia]]'s government to reject internationally donated corn in 2001-02 because it was "poisoned", as well as during the cyclone disaster in India. On the latter Shiva argued, "emergency cannot be used as market opportunity", to which Brand responded, "anyone who encourages other people to starve on principle should do some of the starving themselves". In 1998 Shiva was also protesting against Bt cotton program in India, calling it "seeds of suicide, seeds of slavery, seeds of despair", claiming she was protecting the farmers. Restrictive laws established in India under anti-GMO lobbying, however, led to widespread grassroots "seed piracy" where Indian farmers illegally planted seeds of [[Bt cotton]] and [[Genetically modified brinjal|Bt brinjal]], obtained either from experimental plantations or from [[Bangladesh]] (where they are planted legally) due to increased yield and reduced pesticide usage.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Brand|first=Stewart|title=Whole Earth Discipline|year=2010}}</ref> As of 2005 over 2.5 million hectares were planted with "unofficial" Bt cotton in India, of which [[Noel Kingsbury]] said:

{{Blockquote|text=Shiva's "Operation Cremate Monsanto" had spectacularly failed, its anti-GM stance borrowed from Western intellectuals had made no headway with Indian farmers, who showed they were not passive recipients of either technology or propaganda, but could take an active role in shaping their lives. What they did is also perhaps more genuinely subversive of multinational capitalism than anything GM's opponents have ever managed.|author=[[Noel Kingsbury]]|title= |source=Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding (2009)}}

In India, farmers planting GM crops illegally eventually formed the Shetkari Sanghatana movement, calling for reform of the restrictive laws created under anti-GMO lobbying and as of 2020 an estimated 25% of cotton farmed is GM.<ref>{{Cite web|title=After HTBT cotton, Maharashtra farmers plan to plant genetically-modified brinjal, soyabean|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/after-htbt-cotton-maharashtra-farmers-plan-to-plant-genetically-modified-brinjal-soyabean/article32093717.ece|access-date=2020-07-17|website=@businessline|date=15 July 2020}}</ref>

==Science as legacy of exploitation==
Shiva has repeatedly gone on record characterizing science as "a very narrow, patriarchal project" that has been around only "for a short period of history" and argued that "we name 'science' what is mechanistic and reductionist." She condemns the "kind of science" that "[[Francis Bacon|Bacon]], [[Descartes]], and others, who are called 'fathers of modern science', have created," because scientists, as she claims, "declare nature as dead" and then use a "mechanistic mode" to analyze it. Shiva assigns the so-called scientific progress of the last centuries to the advance of [[capitalism]], a time when the new exploitation needed a knowledge that would justify it.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/reel/1034870791761123 |title=Vandana Shiva|website=YouTube |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref> In her 8 March 2017 speech to the [[European Parliament]], Shiva stated that the "rise of masculinist science with Descartes, Newton, Bacon, led to the domination of [a] reductionist mechanistic science and a subjugation of [the] knowledge systems [that are] based on interconnections and relationships," a knowledge, she argued, that "includes all [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] knowledge systems, and women’s knowledge."<ref name=eup>{{cite web |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/212309/Programme-interparliamentary-conference_8-9-March-2017.pdf |title=Women's Economic Empowerment: Let's Act Together|publisher=[[European Parliament]] |date=8 March 2017 |website=Europa.EU |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref><ref name=dead>{{cite web |url=https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/womens-day-2017-statement-by-dr-vandana-shiva-author-activist-pioneer-scientific-advisor-mother_I135030|title=Statement by Dr Vandana Shiva, author, activist, pioneer, scientific advisor, mother |publisher=[[European Parliament]] |date=8 March 2017 |website=Europa.EU |access-date=25 October 2024}}</ref>

==Film==
Vandana Shiva has been interviewed for a number of documentary films including ''Freedom Ahead'', ''Roshni;''<ref name="theunknownfilmcompany1">{{cite web|url=http://www.theunknownfilmcompany.com|title=The Unknown Film Company – Film Production Services|website=The Unknown Film Company|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> ''Deconstructing Supper: Is Your Food Safe?,'' ''[[The Corporation (2003 film)|The Corporation]],'' ''Thrive,'' ''[[Dirt! The Movie]],'' Normal is Over, and ''This is What Democracy Looks Like'' (a documentary about the Seattle [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity|WTO protests of 1999]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akpress.org/2005/items/thisiswhatdemocracydvd |title=This Is What Democracy Looks Like DVD |publisher=AK Press |date=26 February 2005 |access-date=14 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124222910/http://akpress.org/2005/items/thisiswhatdemocracydvd |archive-date=24 November 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://multcolib.kanopy.com/video/normal-over|title=Normal is Over {{!}} Kanopy|website=multcolib.kanopy.com|access-date=22 June 2019}}</ref> and Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs ''[[Planet of the Humans]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/21/michael_moore_presents_planet_of_the_humans_documentary_we_are_losing_the_battle_to_stop_climate_change.html |title=Michael Moore Presents "Planet of the Humans" Documentary: We Are Losing The Battle To Stop Climate Change |website=[[RealClearPolitics]] }}</ref>

Shiva's focus on water has caused her to appear in a number of films on this topic. These films include "Ganga From the Ground Up," a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges;<ref>http://www.gayawana.org {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213339/http://www.gayawana.org/ |date=9 July 2011 }}</ref> ''[[Blue Gold: World Water Wars]]'' by [[Sam Bozzo]]; [[Irena Salina]]'s documentary ''[[Flow: For Love of Water]]'' (in competition at the 2008 [[Sundance Film Festival]]), and the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] NOW documentary ''On Thin Ice.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/now/shows/516/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421094025/http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/516/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2009 |title=On Thin Ice, NOW on PBS |publisher=PBS |date=12 March 2010 |access-date=14 April 2011}}</ref>

On the topic of genetically modified crops, she was featured in the documentary ''Fed Up!'' (2002), on genetic engineering, industrial agriculture and sustainable alternatives; and the documentary ''[[The World According to Monsanto]]'', a film made by the French independent journalist [[Marie-Monique Robin]].

Shiva appeared in a documentary film about the [[Dalai Lama]], entitled ''[[Dalai Lama Renaissance]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalailamafilm.com |title=Dalai Lama Renaissance Documentary Film – Narrated by Harrison Ford – DVD Dali Tibet China |publisher=Dalailamafilm.com |access-date=14 April 2011}}</ref>

In 2010, Shiva was interviewed in a documentary about [[Honey bee|honeybees]] and [[colony collapse disorder]], entitled ''[[Queen of the Sun]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.queenofthesun.com/2010/11/vandana-shiva-physicist/ |title=Vandana Shiva |publisher=Queen of the Sun |date=6 November 2010 |access-date=14 April 2011}}</ref>

She appears in the French films ''Demain''<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.demain-lefilm.com/en/film | title=The film &#124; Demain}}</ref> and ''[[:fr:Solutions locales pour un désordre global|Solutions locales pour un désordre global]]''.

In 2016, she appeared in the [[vegan]] documentary film ''[https://www.hope-theproject.com/the-film/ H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters]'', where she was critical of the [[Intensive animal farming|animal agriculture industry]] and [[meat]]-intensive diets.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hope-theproject.com/the-film/the-film/|title=H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters|website=hope-theproject.com|access-date=24 February 2019 |minutes=39:40}}</ref>

===Selected listing===
* ''Seeds of Death: Unveiling the Lies of GMOs'', 2012<ref>Seattle Community Media [http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/better-days-films/episode/better-days-films-day-19 Better Days Films – Day 19, Seeds of Death – Award Winning – Unveiling the Lies of GMOs – Part 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131081103/http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/better-days-films/episode/better-days-films-day-19 |date=31 January 2018 }}</ref>
* ''Another Story of Progress'', 2012<ref>Documentary Heaven [http://documentaryheaven.com/another-story-of-progress/ AnOther Story Of Progress]</ref>
* ''The Farmer and His Prince'', 2013<ref>Future of Food Journal [https://issuu.com/fofjournal/docs/vol_2_nr_2_fofj/97 2&#91;2&#93; Winter-2014 / 2015 – Page 95, 96 The Farmer and his Prince]</ref>
* ''Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth'', 2013<ref>The Hollywood Reporter [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creating-freedom-lottery-birth-film-573362 Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth: Film Review 6/21/2013 by John DeFore]</ref>
* ''[[Poverty Inc.]]'', 2014<ref>Long Island Exchange [https://www.longislandexchange.com/press-releases/poverty-inc-at-cinema-arts-centre/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 26, 2014, POVERTY, INC. AT CINEMA ARTS CENTRE]</ref>
* ''[[The True Cost]]'', 2015, a documentary about [[fast fashion]] and the [[Garment industry in Bangladesh|garment industry]]
* ''Planet of the humans'', 2018<ref>[https://planetofthehumans.com/ Planet of the Humans]</ref>

==BBC Women of the Year list==
She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-10-15 |title=BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year? |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50042279 |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref>

==Publications==
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* 1981, ''Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in [[Kolar, Karnataka|Kolar]]'', Vandana Shiva, H.C. Sharatchandra, J. Banyopadhyay, [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore]]
* 1986, ''[[Chipko movement|Chipko]]: India's Civilisational Response to the Forest Crisis'', J. Bandopadhyay and Vandana Shiva, [[Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage]]. Pub. by [[INTACH]]
* 1987, ''The [[Chipko Movement]] Against Limestone Quarrying in Doon Valley'', J. Bandopadhyay and Vandana Shiva, Lokayan Bulletin, 5: 3, 1987, pp.&nbsp;19–25 [http://el.doccentre.info/eldoc/e60_/870601lok1B.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418195414/http://el.doccentre.info/eldoc/e60_/870601lok1B.pdf |date=18 April 2016 }}
* 1988, ''Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India'', Zed Press, New Delhi, {{ISBN|0-86232-823-3}}
* 1989, ''The Violence of the [[Green Revolution]]: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab'', Natraj Publishers, New Delhi, {{ISBN|0-86232-964-7}} hb, {{ISBN|0-86232-965-5}} pb
* 1991, ''Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India'', Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, {{ISBN|0-8039-9672-1}}
* 1992, ''Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives'' (editor); Zed Press, United Kingdom
* 1993, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090702135348/http://www.dhf.uu.se/FMPro?-db=pub1.fp5&-format=%2fpublications%2fdd%2fapubdddetail.html&-lay=weblayout&-sortfield=pubyear&-sortorder=descend&-sortfield=pubissuewithoutcolon&-sortorder=descend&pubtype=development&-max=2147483647&-recid=3&-find= ''Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections''] (editor), [[Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation]] and [[Kali for Women]], New Delhi
* 1993, ''Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture'', Zed Press, New Delhi
* 1993, ''Ecofeminism'', Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Fernwood Publications, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, {{ISBN|1-895686-28-8}}
* 1994, ''Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide'', Earthscan, London, {{ISBN|0-86571-264-6}}
* 1995, ''Biopolitics'' (with Ingunn Moser), Zed Books, United Kingdom
* 1997, ''Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge'', [[South End Press]], Cambridge Massachusetts, I {{ISBN|1-896357-11-3}}
* 2000, ''Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply'', [[South End Press]], Cambridge Massachusetts, {{ISBN|0-89608-608-9}}
* 2000, ''Tomorrow's Biodiversity'', Thames and Hudson, London, {{ISBN|0-500-28239-0}}
* 2001, ''Patents, Myths and Reality'', Penguin India
* 2002, ''Water Wars; Privatization, Pollution, and Profit'', [[South End Press]], Cambridge Massachusetts
* 2005,  ''India Divided'', Seven Stories Press,
* 2005, ''Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms'', Women Unlimited, New Delhi, {{ISBN|81-88965-17-0}}
* 2005, ''Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace'', [[South End Press]], {{ISBN|0-89608-745-X}}
* 2007, ''Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed'', editor, [[South End Press]] {{ISBN|978-0-89608-777-4}}
* 2007, ''Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological and Third World Perspective'', author, Paradigm Publishers {{ISBN|978-1-59451-204-9}}
* 2007, Cargill and the Corporate Hijack of India's Food and Agriculture, Navdanya/RFSTE, New Delhi
* 2008, ''Soil Not Oil'', [[South End Press]] {{ISBN|978-0-89608-782-8}}
* 2010, ''Staying Alive'', [[South End Press]] {{ISBN|978-0-89608-793-4}}
* 2011, ''Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge'', Natraj Publishers, {{ISBN|978-8-18158-160-0}}
* 2011, ''Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity'', Natraj Publishers, {{ISBN|978-8-18158-151-8}}
* 2013, ''Making Peace with the Earth ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407104746/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745333762 Pluto Press] {{ISBN|978-0-7453-33762}}
* 2016, "Who Really Feeds the World", [[North Atlantic Books]], Berkeley, California {{ISBN|978-1623170622}}
* 2018, Oneness Vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom, Women Unlimited, {{ISBN|978-93-85606-18-2}}
* 2019, {{Cite book |author=Vandana Shiva |editor=Extinction Rebellion |editor-link=Extinction Rebellion |title=This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook |publisher=Penguin Books |date=2019  |pages=5–8 |chapter=Foreword |isbn=9780141991443}}
* 2022, ''Terra Viva: My life in a biodiversity of movements'', CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING CO, ISBN 9781645021889

==See also==
* [[Green Revolution in India]]
* [[Science and technology studies in India]]
* [[List of Indian writers]]

==References==
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