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Vandana Shiva — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1952 · India · Activist & scholar

Vandana Shiva

Earth democracy

Seeds, commons, and the global South.

Economic−74
SocialistMarket
Governance−50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+70
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The physicist-activist whose campaigns for seed sovereignty and against corporate agriculture made her a leading voice of Global South eco-socialism.

social

Eco-feminist, anti-globalisation progressive.

economic

Opposes corporate agribusiness; champions commons and small farmers.

governance

Decentralised, grassroots ecological democracy.

Notable for
  • Seed-sovereignty movement
  • 'Earth Democracy'
  • Eco-feminist scholarship
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