Vandana Shiva

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vandana Shiva
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1952(1952-11-05)
Age	72
Birthplace	Dehradun
Country	India
Birth City	Uttarakhand
Horoscope	Scorpio

Vandana Shiva Biography

Vandana Shiva is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on November 5, 1952 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar and environmentalist and food sovereignty advocate and anti-globalization writer. Shiva is currently living in Delhi has written more than 20 books.

Shiva wrote the novel “Ecofeminism” in 1993 with “German anarchist and radical feminist sociologist” Maria Mies. The book is a combination of similar and different Western and Southern feminists, and “environmental, technological and feminist issues, all incorporated under the term ecofeminism”. These theories are integrated throughout the book with essays – both fresh and old from Shiva as well as Mies.

Shiva supports the idea of seed freedom, or the rejection of corporate patents on seeds. She has campaigned against the implementation of the WTO 1994 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, which broadens the scope of patents to include life forms. Shiva has criticised the agreement as having close ties with the corporate sector and opening the door to further patents on life. Shiva calls the patenting of life ‘biopiracy’, and has fought against attempted patents of several indigenous plants, such as basmati. In 2005, Shiva’s was one of the three organisations that won a 10-year battle in the European Patent Office against the biopiracy of Neem by the US Department of Agriculture and the corporation WR Grace. In 1998, Shiva’s organisation Navdanya began a campaign against the biopiracy of basmati rice by US corporation RiceTec Inc. In 2001, following intensive campaigning, RiceTec lost most of its claims to the patent.

Cases of plagiarism have been pointed out against Vandana Shiva. Birendra Nayak has published that in 1998, Shiva copied verbatim from a 1996 article in Voice Gopalpur in her 1998 book Stronger than Steel, and that in 2016, she plagiarized several paragraphs of an article by S Faizi on the Plachimada /Coca-Cola issue published in The Statesman.

Her debut book, Staying Alive (1988) was instrumental in changing the perception of women from third world countries. In 1990 she completed an article on behalf of the FAO on Women and Agriculture that was titled, “Most Farmers in India are Women”. She was the founder of the gender division in the International Centre for Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu and was also a founder board member for the Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO).

Vandana Shiva Net Worth

Vandana Shiva is one of the richest Philosopher from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vandana Shiva 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shiva was a physics student during her time at Panjab University in Chandigarh, receiving her bachelor’s degree in sciences in the year 1972. After a brief time working at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, she relocated towards Canada to pursue an Masters in the field of philosophy of science. She attended the University of Guelph in 1977 in which she wrote a thesis titled “Changes in the concept of periodicity of light”. She graduated in 1978 and graduated and was awarded the PhD in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, which was centered around the philosophy of Physics. Her dissertation was entitled “Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory” in she discussed the philosophical and mathematical implications of theories about hidden variables which are outside Bell’s Theorem. She was able to pursue inter-disciplinary research in the fields of science technology, environment, and regulations at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.

She was born in 1982 and created her own organization, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. It led to development of Navdanya in 1991, which is a nationwide movement to safeguard the integrity and diversity in living things, particularly indigenous seeds, and to promote the idea organic farming, along with fair trade. Navdanya can mean “Nine Seeds” or “New Gift” is a program of the RFSTE to help farmers understand the advantages of maintaining various and individual crop varieties rather than accepting offer for monoculture-based food production. The program established more than forty seed bank across India to offer regional opportunities to cultivate diverse agricultural practices. In 2004, Shiva established Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college that promotes sustainable living in Doon Valley, Uttarakhand, in partnership along with Schumacher College, UK.

She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin), and a figure of the anti-globalization movement. She has argued in favor of many traditional practices, as in her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime). She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She is also a member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an award established by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, and regarded as an “Alternative Nobel Prize”.

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Vandana Shiva plays a major role in the global Ecofeminist movement. According to her 2004 article Empowering Women, Shiva suggests that a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved through reinstating the system of farming in India that is more centered on engaging women. She advocates against the prevalent “patriarchal logic of exclusion,” claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner. She believes that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes threaten daily life, and the maintenance of these problems have become the responsibility of women.

Facts & Trivia

Vandana Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Vandana Shiva celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

Shiva’s focus on water has caused her to appear in a number of films on this topic. These films include “Ganga From the Ground Up,” a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges; Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo; Irena Salina’s documentary Flow: For Love of Water (in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival), and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

What is Vandana Shiva famous for?

Vandana Shiva, (born November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal [now Uttarakhand], India), Indian physicist and social activist. Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy (RFSTN), an organization devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture , in 1982.

Did Vandana Shiva win a Nobel Prize?

Vandana Shiva
Occupation| Philosopher, environmentalist, author, professional speaker, social activist

Is Vandana Shiva vegan?

Vandana Shiva is vegetarian and also a founding member of Regeneration International, an organization that promotes and researches this stuff.

Why is Vandana Shiva against Green Revolution?

Broadly speaking, she has argued that the Green Revolution, through its use of fertilizers and pesticides, has led to pollution, a loss of indigenous seed diversity and traditional agricultural knowledge, and a dependence of poor farmers on costly chemicals.

Who funds Vandana Shiva?

Small Planet Fund (Formerly the Rudolph Steiner Foundation – a project of Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe) reports funding to Vandana Shiva[19]