SHIVA Vandana

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Fondatrice de l’association « Navdanya », Vandana Shiva est physicienne, féministe, scientifique indienne, lauréate du prix Nobel alternatif, écrivain, docteur en philosophie des sciences, dirige la fondation de recherche pour la science, les technologies et les ressources naturelles.

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Will WTO Shrink or Sink?

> ZNet, Dec 2005

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Here the author describes how economically weaker nations have learnt to exercise their power in WTO through non-cooperation and why they need to reject the “Aid of Trade” package in the draft Hong Kong Ministerial Text, viewing it as a retreat from commitments made at Doha.  read

date of on-line publication : 13 December 2005

Le terrorisme alimentaire

> 2001, Fayard, 208 pp., 17,50€

Ce livre dénonce la stratégie que mènent les grandes firmes internationales de l’agroalimentaire dans les pays comme l’Inde, au Mexique aux Philippines, au Kenya. L’auteur démontre les conséquences désastreuses des politiques agressives des multinationales sur le plan économique, social ou écologique de ces pays.  lire

date de mise en ligne : 1er décembre 2005

India’s Water Future

The commodification of water

> 3rd November, 2005, ZNet

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This commentary looks at the World Bank’s efforts to reduce water to a “market economy” and its intentions for privatisation in India. The author also brings in a comparison with the Seed Act of 2004. Furthermore, the author argues: “by ignoring the ecological and hydrological limits of water availability and allowing water access and water distribution to be driven by insatiable markets, the Bank is prescribing a deepening of the water crisis and a growing polarization in access the water. The Bank’s future vision is the vision for a hydro-apartheid.”

• More commentaries by the same author on the subjects of water and biopiracy can be found here.

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date of on-line publication : 8 November 2005