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This unique, international offering on an issue of critical importance today, demonstrates how women as activists, scientists and scholars are at the forefront of shaping new scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim seed sovereignty and food security across the world. Women in the North and South are leading movements to change both practice and paradigm: how we grow and transform our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as mothers and consumers, they are engaged in renewing a food system that is better aligned with the ecological processes of the earth’s renewal, the laws of human rights and social justice and the means through which our bodies stay well and healthy.

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’ and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them Making Peace with the Earth, Soil Not Oil and Globalisation’s New Wars. Shiva is the recipient of over 20 international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); Save the World Award (2009); Sydney Peace Prize (2010); Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011); and Thomas Merton Award (2011).

Table of Contents

SECTION I: International: Reflections on a Broken Paradigm

Fields of Hope and Power

Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé

The Ethics of Agricultural Biotechnology

Beth Burrows

Food Politics, the Food Movement and Public Health

Marion Nestle

Autism and Glyphosate: Connecting the Dots

Stephanie Seneff

The New Genetics and Dangers of GMOs

Mae-Wan Ho

SECTION II: Global North

Seed Emergency: Germany

Susanne Gura

GM Soy as Feed for Animals Affects Posterity

Irina Ermakova & Alexander Baranoff

Seeds in France

Tiphaine Burban

Kokopelli vs. Graines Baumaux

Blanche Magarinos-Rey

If People Are Asked, They Say NO to GMOs

Florianne Koechlin

The Italian Context

Maria Grazia Mammucini

The Untold American Revolution: History of the Seed in the US

Debbie Barker

Reviving Native Sioux Agriculture Systems

Suzanne Foote

In Praise of the Leadership of Indigenous Women

Winona LaDuke

Moms Across America: Shaking Up the System

Zen Honeycutt

SECTION III: Global South

Seed Freedom and Seed Sovereignty: Bangladesh Today

Farida Akhter

Monsanto and Biosafety in Nepal

Kusum Hachhethu

Sowing Seeds of Freedom

Vandana Shiva

The Loss of Crop Genetic Diversity in the Changing World

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher & Sue Edwards

Seed Sovereignty and Ecological Integrity in Africa

Mariam Mayet

Conserving the Diversity of Peasant Seeds

Ana de Ita

Celebrating the Chile Nativo

Isaura Andaluz

Seed Saving and Women in Peru

Patricia Flores

Seeds of Liberation in Latin America

Sandra Baquedano & Sara Larraín

The Other Mothers and the Fight against GMOs in Argentina

Ana Broccoli

Seeding Knowledge: Australia

Susan Hawthorne

 

Contributors:

Frances Moore Lappé

Anna Lappé

Beth Burrows

Marion Nestle

Stephanie Seneff

Mae-Wan Ho

Susanne Gura

Irina Ermakova

Alexander Baranoff

Tiphaine Burban

Blanche Magarinos-Rey

Florianne Koechlin

Maria Grazia Mammucini

Debbie Barker

Suzanne Foote

Winona LaDuke

Zen Honeycutt

Farida Akhter

Kusum Hachhethu

Tewolde Berhan

Gebre Egziabher

Sue Edwards

Mariam Mayet

Ana de Ita

Isaura Andaluz

Patricia Flores

Sandra Baquedano

Sara Larraín

Ana Broccoli

Susan Hawthorne