Vandana Shiva is the founder of Navdanya[1], an Indian non-profit working on rural & agriculture and environment from Dehradun.
Navdanya
Navdanya promotes biodiversity conservation, seed sovereignty and organic farming, and has helped set up more than 150 community seed banks across India since 1991.
Navdanya reports the following, on its own site:
- More than 150 community seed banks conserving native seed varieties
- Farmer network spans 22 states growing living food from Desi seeds
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