Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

Activist, India


Seed, Food, Guts: The Contemporary Status of Agriculture

In her presentation at MAD3, author and seed activist Vandana Shiva describes how decades ago she had the gut feeling to leave the world of physics (she has a PhD in quantum theory) to go fight against industrialized and commodified food systems. Although she had published work on the subject early in her career, she felt that that wasn’t enough. “If you’re serious and honest,” she says, “you can’t just analyze something.”

 

 

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