Resource Title
Vandana Shiva On the Real Cause of World Hunger
Summary
Trained as a physicist, Vandana Shiva is an organic farmer, social activist and renowned environmentalist. She warns that global hunger is a product of “intensive chemical farming” which turns biodiverse land into monocultures that are too costly for farmers to sustain and produces too little nutritional crops for local consumption.
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Description
In this 2009 interview, Vandana Shiva talks about developing countries like her native India where agricultural communities are surrounded by fertile farmland and highly favorable growing conditions yet struggle with high rates of childhood hunger. Much of the food grown by indigenous farmers are exported to richer countries.
- For more, take a look at Vandana Shiva’s Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today video
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- Access the full transcript on Food Farmer Earth’s channel.