The Nature of Nature

“Vandana’s is a clear, indefatigable voice of outstanding intellect and compassion, of deliberate and compelling outrage in our planetary crisis. She is a privilege to know and learn from in my lifetime.”

—Professor Marilyn Waring, author of If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics

“Vandana Shiva’s pioneering efforts to expose how a GMO- and fossil fuel–based petrochemical agricultural system has wreaked havoc on our species’ global food chain and undermined ecosystems around the world have touched off a worldwide conversation. She has singlehandedly drawn several generations into regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration, particularly in developing countries. Her new book makes the incontrovertible connection between a warming climate and an outmoded agricultural system and guides our species into a more ecologically sensitive approach to provisioning food by treating nature as a shared commons for all of life on Earth.”

—Jeremy Rifkin, economic and social theorist; writer; activist

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, the Slow Food Movement, and Regeneration International. Director of Navdanya and 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 Oneness vs. the 1%; Making Peace with the Earth; Soil Not Oil; Globalization’s New Wars; Seed Sovereignty, Food Security; Who Really Feeds the World?; and Terra Viva.

Shiva is the recipient of over twenty international awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1998); the Horizon 3000 Award (Austria, 2001); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); the Save the World Award (2009); the Sydney Peace Prize (2010); the Calgary Peace Prize (2011); and the Thomas Merton Award (2011). She was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012.