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“Food is a weapon. When you control seed, you control life on earth.”
Vandana Shiva
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva feature documentary focuses on the people, circumstances and seminal events in Vandana’s life, what shaped her thinking and defined her purpose. It also shows how the battle against multinational agribusiness has become an international struggle between two visions for feeding the world: The first, a multinational corporate model of chemically dependent monoculture that rewards a capitalist imperative of profit and growth. And the other, Earth Democracy, that honors ecology, biodiversity, sustainability and community. What Dr. Shiva demonstrates is the only way forward for the future of food.
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About the movie
FEATURING: Vandana Shiva
FORMAT: Feature Documentary
FILMMAKERS: Camilla Becket, Jim Becket
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Frederique van der Wal
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2022
HD PG CC
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Vandana Shiva is a pioneering environmentalist who founded Navdanya, a women-led movement advancing seed and food sovereignty, ecological justice, and Earth Democracy. For over thirty years, Navdanya has empowered small farmers, preserved agricultural biodiversity, and challenged corporate control of seeds and food systems.
In Seeds of Vandana Shiva, we trace Vandana’s journey confronting powerful agricultural interests and spotlight an urgent reality: industrial food systems generate up to 40% of carbon emissions, while pesticides degrade soil, poison water, destroy biodiversity, and harm human health. Meanwhile, more than two billion people still face food insecurity.
Vandana’s vision is rooted in an ecological model of food and farming, one that restores the land, revives rural communities, and strengthens democracy. Her story continues to inspire action, awareness, and a growing movement toward a more just, sustainable future.
“One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.”
– The Guardian
“All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful, and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately desytroying the natural world.”
– Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace
“One of the great eco-activists of our time.”
– Bill Moyers
Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in India and President of Navdanya International.
Trained as a Physicist at the University of Punjab, she completed her Ph.D. on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.
In 1982 she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), an independent research institute that addresses the most significant problems of ecology of our times, and two years later, Navdanya (‘nine seeds’) the movement in defense of biodiversity and the contributions made to the climate, environment and society by small farmers.
The recipient of many awards, including the Right Livelihood Award, (the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) and the Sydney Peace Prize, she has been named among the top five “Most Important People in Asia” by AsiaWeek.
She is a prolific writer and author of numerous books and serves on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, and member of the executive committee of the World Future Council.
In 1995, Vandana Shiva set out to build Bija Vidyapeeth (School of the Seed), also known as Earth University, in an old eucalyptus orchard in the Doon Valley in Utterkahand, India. Many said this could not be done, but Dr. Shiva persisted and transformed the soil and land into a successful thriving organic farm.
Today, Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth is a fully operational 47-acre organic farm, seed bank, and biodiversity research center for farmer's, educators, students, and thought leaders from around the world to come visit and learn about regenerative farming, agroecology, and the Navdanya movement. Click here to visit website.
