Vandana Shiva (Leaving Cert Politics and Society): Flashcards
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Vandana Shiva's main roles
Vandana Shiva's main roles
Indian environmentalist, social activist, critic of globalisation
Vandana Shiva's birth year
Vandana Shiva's birth year
1952
Shiva's core philosophy about nature
Shiva's core philosophy about nature
Interconnectedness - everything in nature is connected
What was the Green Revolution?
What was the Green Revolution?
1960s effort using high-yield grains to tackle world hunger
Shiva's term for the Green Revolution
Shiva's term for the Green Revolution
Maldevelopment
Shiva's view of globalisation
Shiva's view of globalisation
A violent system imposed & maintained through violence
TRIPS Agreement year & purpose
TRIPS Agreement year & purpose
1994 - enabled patenting of seeds/life forms
What is Navdanya?
What is Navdanya?
Movement founded by Shiva protecting seed freedom from corporations
Shiva's term for corporate seed control
Shiva's term for corporate seed control
Biopiracy or biological theft
Monsanto's control in Indian cotton
Monsanto's control in Indian cotton
Controls 95% of cotton in India (BT cotton)
Shiva's link between Monsanto & farmer deaths
Shiva's link between Monsanto & farmer deaths
284,000 farmer suicides due to cotton costs & debt
Shiva's ecofeminism connects what?
Shiva's ecofeminism connects what?
Treatment of women with treatment of the earth
What is seed freedom?
What is seed freedom?
Right of farmers to save & use traditional seeds without patents
Shiva's quote on paradigm change
Shiva's quote on paradigm change
We need a new paradigm for living on earth - old one not working