Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food-Part 2

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In part two, Dr. Vandana Shiva expresses her strong views about the problems of hunger in the developing world; the struggle of farmers in India; biotechnology, and her prescription for the type of farming model she believes the world needs.

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  1. Human overpopulation is the most pressing environmental issues, aggravating the forces behind global warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, arable land and fossil fuels, at speeds faster than their rate of regeneration. As the human population continues to explode, finite natural resources, such as fossil fuels, fresh water, arable land, coral reefs and frontier forests, continue to plummet.

  2. What a woman. We need to stand behind her. Our buying choices are directly creating the eradication of all our global heritage food so I would like to suggest we Grow heritage foods and natives at home, using sustainable principles .
    Destroy and mulch all plants grown from packets, hybridised to produce sterile offspring.
    Share the new heirloom seeds with our neighbours to grow next season.

  3. Here is a link to Dr Vandana Shiva's site or at least one you ask for.

    I'm getting an error when trying to post a link. More control I guess. Google seed freedom.

  4. And diversification would absolutely help – and not just to feed people.
    The problem is we forgot about crop rotation. Now we have Panama Disease threatening to wipe out the banana, we have embedded pests and diseases…that could be eradicated by rotating a series of diverse crops. (Additionally, it helps farmers to more consistently make money, as opposed to being forced to live on one sum of money for a year.)

  5. I agree that food does not need to be commodified – but also that the trade of food needs an overhaul.
    Go back 2000 years. Trade's purpose was to obtain something you did not have, in exchange for something you had in surplus.
    Today, even the Greeks and Romans would be confused as to why we trade oranges for oranges or wheat for wheat.
    So you are right – what should be traded are the foods that can only be grown in a certain area or climate.

  6. its an oxymoron, a total misconception of their own understanding of capital gain, within any monetary system across the globe…. if u see money as the exchange of an energy… humans must eat, well, as human batteries that consume, reform the agricultural infrastructure altogether, free seeds, patenting dna????! monkeys! 🙂

  7. Dear Earthlings,

    Mind well, one should not be surprised that under the name of TECHNOLOGY, sister / subsidiaries of Kargill or Monsanto come up / cook up a theory telling us that now on HUMANS will not be able to produce babies, unless they consume GMO food created by them full of required nutrients

  8. @cookingupastory — could you post another version of this series of videos w/o all of the extremely inaccurate and (deliberately???) misleading subtitles? This is extremely important content, Vandana is a giant among us, but this presentation does not do the content justice. Please repost a clean version. Even one w/o subtitles — she is easy to understand!!!

  9. After getting more into the 'bio' marketing, aswell as possibilities of genenetic modification for 'good purposes' like golden rice, I found this video. It's very enlightening.
    While golden rice might be a good concept, the way it will be patented and made unavailable, maybe contaminating normal rice fields, suing farmers, destroying traditional rice, seems a far worse problem than just a lack of Vitamin A! You made me look at the bigger picture of our food industries, thank you.

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