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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
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Dehradun
- Founded
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- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “A physicist by training and a seed-saver by practice, Dr Shiva founded Navdanya in 1991 to defend biodiversity and the rights of small farmers, and has spent three decades writing the case for ecology, food sovereignty, and the Earth's right to thrive - the body of work catalogued on this page.” — Navdanya. Source
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