Dr. Vandana Shiva
Renown Environmental Leader and Activist to Speak at WSU
November 5, 7:30 pm
World renowned environmental leader and provocative thinker Dr. Vandana Shiva gives the keynote address for Washington State University’s International Education Week on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30 pm at the WSU CUB Ballroom.
She discusses sustainability and the global food crisis –- how a global industrial food system that supplies the few with plenty at the expense of the many “is a recipe for eating oil,” resulting in growing hunger, soaring commodity prices and food riots.
Dr. Shiva, a physicist by training, has spent the last three decades fighting against globalization and for change in the practices and paradigms of agriculture and food.
In India, Dr. Shiva established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights.
Her Seeds of Hope project has restored life to the suicide belt in India and assists communities affected by tsunamis, drought and the effects of climate change.
Her policy advocacy on the international scene has successfully defended the right to seed for farmers and the right to food and water for all. In 1993, she received the Right Livelihood Award (known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) and in 2001, AsiaWeek named her one of the top five most important people in Asia.
Dr. Shiva’s many books include Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (South End Press, 2000), where she contrasts corporate command and control methods of food production with the small farmer economy, and Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005), where she critiques globalization and contends that a mutually-supportive network of empowered local communities might create a global society based on humanitarian principles of peace, compassion and solidarity.
The ASWSU International Students’ Council in collaboration with International Programs is sponsoring this event, which is free to the public.
For information, contact Sai Rong, International Programming Chair, International Students’ Council (509) 339-5989, sairong1109@gmail.com
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Biodiversity and Conservation Activist Vandana Shiva to Visit WSU
More Information
Contact Sai Rong, International Programming Chair, International Students’ Council
- (509) 339-5989
- sairong1109@gmail.com