Navdanya

Navdanya is a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India.

Navdanya has helped set up 54 community seed banks across the country, trained over 500,000 farmers in seed sovereignty, food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture over the past two decades, and helped setup the largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in the country.

Navdanya has also set up a learning center, Bija Vidyapeeth (School of the Seed) on its biodiversity conservation and organic farm in Doon Valley, Uttranchal, north India.

Navdanya is actively involved in the rejuvenation of indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defended people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation and climate change.

Navdanya is a women centred movement for the protection of biological and cultural diversity.

 
Navdanya Blog

Navdanya is pleased to announce the launch of its new blog, The Navdanya Diary. An online journal of our activities, the navdanya diary will contain information, articles, letters from the volunteers, pictures and videos and a lot more about our latest activities. Feel free to browse, leave comments, start a discussion and share it with your friends!

 
Latest Publication

Bija is a quarterly published by the Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative, established to provide direction and support to Seed, Food and Water Rights Actions and Navdanya, the Biodiversity, Seed Conservation and Organic Farming Programme, founded by RFSTE in 1987. Contact us to get your copy now!

 

Courses in 2010


February 23 - 26, 2010
Seed Sovereignty
April 11 - 13, 2010
Grandmothers' University : Women, Biodiversity & Traditional Knowledge
July 2 - 4, 2010
Amrapali : Mango Festival
October 3 - 7, 2010
Soil Not Oil : Organic solutions to climatic change and Biodiversity
November 24 - December 4, 2010
Gandhi and Globalisation
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From the Navdanya Diary

  • Democratic Choice
    By Dr. Vandana Shiva Biotech technicians neither have the knowledge of gene ecology nor the expertise in multiple disciplines After the minister of environment Jairam Ramesh announced a moratorium on Bt brinjal, article after article in the [...]
  • BBC World News Interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva
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  • How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
    Original post: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/food-water-africa-land-grab We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below [...]
  • Ban Bt Crops
    We Need a Ban on Bt crops in light of Monsanto admitting that BT cotton has failed to control the Bollworm. The public hearings on Bt Brinjal organised by the Ministry of Environment led to a [...]
  • Architecture of Food Dictatorship
    The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 By Dr. Vandana Shiva On 9th February, the Environment Minister of India Jairam Ramesh announced a Moratorium on Bt. Brinjal as a result of public hearings organised across the country. The [...]

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