Named ‘one of the world’s most prominent radical scientists’ by The Guardian, Vandana Shiva has made her name by vocally debunking the flawed systems that keep so much of the world in poverty and food insecurity, while the top 1 per cent live in unthinkable luxury.
For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localisation, and real democracy. Shiva has also led the charge towards seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction of nature, the polarization of societies, and indiscriminate corporate greed.
A clear-eyed, impassioned and painfully astute assessment of all the ways in which our natural world has been co-opted and sold off to the highest bidder, and the all-important ways Shiva herself has fought to effect profound change from grassroots level upward, her biography also blends her vast knowledge of quantum physics with emerging science, technology and environmental policy.
Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements by Vandana Shiva (Chelsea Green Publishing)
