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Pulses are truly the pulse of life: for the soil, for people and the planet. In our farms they give life to the soil by providing nitrogen. This is how ancient cultures enriched their soils. Farming did not begin with the Green Revolution and synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. Whether it is......


’हम अपने कर्तव्यों के प्रति चैतन्य होकर देश के स्वास्थ्य एवं पर्यावरण की रक्षा करेंगे’प्रिय मित्रो!


The NGO, Navdanya, is reaching out to Punjab cotton growers, who are committing suicides after crop failure. Navdayna used social media awareness with hash-tag #farmerslivesmatter and documentary 'BT Cotton-seeds of suicide' to make Punjab farmers use locally-prepared seeds.

Concerned over damage to the cotton crop in Punjab which forced many farmers......




We honor Sri Sunder Lal Bahuguna on his birth anniversary.

His message must be listened to before it's too late.

We want to be able to really dedicate ourselves to......


Navdanya organises Pulse Festival at Earth University in Dehradun and at Navdanya Organic Café in Dilli Haat, New Delhi.

To celebrate the International Year of Pulses Navdanya starts the campaign ‘Pulse of Life’ with celebrations which will be held both at the farm in Doon Valley and at the Organic Café......


Mahatma Gandhi’s spinning wheel and Gandhi’s ghani (the indigenous cold press oil mill) are both symbols of swadeshi as economic freedom and economic democracy.

Gandhi inspired everyone in India to start spinning their own cloth in order to break free from the imperial control over the textile industry, which......


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About Navdanya

Navdanya means “nine seeds” (symbolizing protection of biological and cultural diversity) and also the “new gift” (for seed as commons, based on the right to save and share seeds In today’s context of biological and ecological destruction, seed savers are the true givers of seed. This gift or “dana” of Navadhanyas (nine seeds) is the ultimate gift – it is a gift of life, of heritage and continuity. Conserving seed is conserving biodiversity, conserving knowledge of the seed and its utilization, conserving culture, conserving sustainability.

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