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Bhutanese farmers and Agriculture officers are on exposure tour of India. the exposure is organised by Navdanya from 22nd March to 4th of april 2011. On 22nd afternoon the group was received by Navdanya Programme Coordinator Mr. Darwan Singh Negi at New Delhi. On 23rdand 24th group interacted with Punjab......

On 15th March, 2011, Dr. Vandana Shiva was honoured by Raj Rajeshwari award from PHD Chamber of Commerce and Uttarakhand State Planning Commission. This award is for the women of Uttarakhand who have excelled in their field of work.The trophy was presented on the occassion of inauguration of the Grand......

Navdanya in collaboration with Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of Uttarakhand started a series of two day trainers training programme on Biodiversity based Organic farming. These training programmes are sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology. First training was started on 29th -30th December. Till date three training programmes have been conducted......

December saw the wrap-up of the first season of Navdanya’s Seeds of Hope, Gardens of Hope programme in Dehradun. Over the past four months, the interns at Bija Vidyapeeth have had the pleasure of working with a dynamic groups of students from Dehradun and are overwhelmed by the successes of......

Navdanya has started training farmers in Samdrup Jongkhar province in the South Eastern Bhutan from 21st December 2010.

Govt. of Bhutan is helping the initiative led by Dzongsar Khentse Rinpoche as Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative of Dewathang Chokyi Jyatso Institute in Dewathang of Samdrup Jongkhar Province. In the begining govt. has banned......

Quito, Ecuador, 26 November 2010.

A historic case was filed by an international coalition of defenders of nature’s rights at the Constitutional court of Ecuador against BP and its crimes against nature. Ecuador recognises the rights of nature in its current constitution adopted in 2008. The rights of nature are universal.......

Northern India was hit by extreme cloudbursts in the monsoon this year and the area around the Tehri Dam was reported to be especially affected. During a documentation trip in mid-october Navdanya collected peoples accounts. 50 % of the houses were damaged. Landslides have severely affected infrastructure and fields and......