Dr. Vandana Shiva on India s Farmers Protests: Indian Farmers Are a Victim Of FOOD IMPERIALISM

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Vandana Shiva, the Founder and President of Navdanya, Technology and Natural Resource Policy who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. She discusses the recent avalanche in Uttarakhand which has left hundreds missing and the causes behind it, how the World Banks actions in the 1991 was arguably the start of Indian farmers vs global capitalism, why Indias farmers are organising en masse to oppose Modis neoliberal farming laws, 1 in 4 farmers on Earth being Indian, multinational farming corporations and their war on Indias independent farmers, the history of the spread of GMO technology such as Roundup, why a transition away from industrial farming back to smallscale farming is needed to fight climate change and much more , FarmersProtests, India, Modi We contacted the UK Department for Food Rural Affairs who directed us to this statement by Environment Secretary George Eustice: Gene editing has the