Who Really Feeds the World?

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Staying Alive, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, and Globalization's New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

Tackles two of the greatest challenges of our age: how to feed humanity in an increasingly crowded and hungry world, and how to address the health crises created by industrialized agriculture.

Introduction 1. Agroecology feeds the world, not a violent knowledge paradigm 2. Living soil feeds the world, not chemical fertilizers 3. Bees and butterflies feed the world, not poisons and pesticides 4. Biodiversity feeds the world, not toxic monocultures 5. Small-scale farmers feed the world, not large-scale industrial farms 6. Seed freedom feeds the world, not seed dictatorship 7. Localization feeds the world, not globalization 8. Women feed the world, not corporations 9. The way forward

The South's best-known environmentalist.
This is a tour de force that will stimulate and inspire readers to be part of the positive changes towards a better way of living, growing and eating.
A world leading expert on food sustainability.
One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.
If humans survive this century, it will be in no small measure due to the work of Vandana Shiva, one of today's most important writers, thinkers, and activists. Her work is relentlessly compassionate, courageous, and bitingly clear. This profound book should be required reading for anyone who grows - or eats - food.