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opening of the Research
Foundation for Science,
Technology, and Ecology in
1982 and the opening of
Navdanya, a national movement
to protect the diversity and
integrity of living resources
in 1991 by her. For her,
Science is about searching
and understanding the
roots. Dr. Shiva’s story
inspires many youngsters
like us to work towards
protecting the climate using
our limited expertise.
During the interaction, Dr.
Vandana suggested
youngsters continue to have
a thirst for knowledge, engage in an experience
But, before we dive deep into learning the possibilities, that sparks their curiosity and passion, and
let’s know our speaker more. Dr. Vandana Shiva volunteer at an organization in the area of their
spent the early years of her career researching interest to experience how things work in the
hidden variables and non-locality in Quantum domain.
Theory at the University of Western Ontario.
Our interaction later moved to the food
During her visits to India in systems especially the diversification in the food
the summers, she used to habits. We were surprised to learn the benefits
volunteer at organizations that diversification in crops, as well as food
following her interest habits, can offer.
areas and that’s when Dr. Vandana
she felt an urge and emphasized that
passion towards crop diversification
environmental is a necessary
conservation. This was element of our food
not the initial spark as she systems. Earlier
was already into wheat was used for
conservation due to her special occasions
parents who were very instead of as a staple
connected to forests and crop and food in
plants as conservators India. Whereas,
and farmers. But, this was Millet is much more in
the ignition of the motiva- the news these
tion in that initial spark for days especially in
starting her own initiatives for India, promoting
environmental conservation. the usage of millet
through several
Two major milestones towards this step were the forms.
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