Vandana Shiva - Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change

In Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture, Vandana Shiva exposes the true cost of the industrialized agricultural production modelranging from negative impacts on the environment, the economy, and human health. We cannot afford to continue down this path. Shiva shows us how imperative it is for humankind to embrace Regenerative Agriculture. A must-read for all who are concerned about our future.

Once again, a relentless and passionate Shiva brings light to the latest in colonialism and nefarious Wiindigoo capitalism. In their rabid consumption of life forms, the Wiindigoos destroy the world that feeds them. We find ourselves at a crossroads, between two pathsone green and the other scorched. It is known as the Seventh Fire. And, at this moment, Vandana reminds us that we still have seeds and soil. In those life forms is great hope and promise.

With all her usual power and clarity, Shiva describes how we can transition to a food system that regenerates ecosystems, builds biodiversity, and provides healthy nutrition for allstarting with soil, seeds, farms, and food. This book brings together years of research and experience from the worlds leading ecofeminist scholar. Dont miss it.

Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture integrates cutting edge science with indigenous wisdom into a clarion call for the future of agriculture. The methods, principles, and case studies in this book cant be ignored. While others debate endlessly, Vandana Shiva and her team do the work and prove this scienceTHIS is how we end world hunger and mitigate climate catastrophe.

Vandana Shiva is the defining voice of the organic regenerative agriculture movement. Here she lays out how the misnamed Green Revolution advanced an industrial agriculture based on poisons and patents that are killing people and the planet to grow the profits of transnational corporations. An essential read for anyone committed to advancing the emergence of an Ecological Civilization dedicated to the well-being of people and Earth.

Based upon decades of ethnoecological research and farming experience, this comprehensive and path-breaking book brings the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of farmers to the forefront. It underscores the importance of dozens of actions that farmers do or can do, which in turn work with the renewal capacity of the earth while securing the health of the global commons. This book is relevant, now more than ever, given the globalization agenda, the loss of biodiversity, food sovereignty, pollution, and climate change around the world.

An enlightened synthesis that weaves together decades of experience and studies from around the world to challenge the foundational myths of modern agriculture. With a scientists eye for insight and an activists passion for change, Shiva lays out an urgent call for ecologically-based regenerative farming rooted in restoring diversity and organic matter.

Vandana Shiva skillfully pulls together threads that for too long have been treated as separate epidemics; from human health and well-being, food production, to environmental and global climate change. Bringing together over 30 years of real-world practice and research at Navdanya, Shiva celebrates the important role of farmers as key figures in regeneration and reversing the far-reaching catastrophic consequences from the failed promises of the Green Revolution.

Highlighting many examples of agrarian distress within land and people, this book is a much-needed clarion call for why biodiverse organic farming makes sense at a human and planetary level. It is a well-researched volume and a skillful balance of breadth and depth, scholarship and hands-on guidance borne of lived-experience; Vandana Shivas depth of understanding sings through every page.

Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture is a magnificent manifesto for the future of good farming; which can sequester carbon dioxide, feed everyone with nutritious food, preserve the integrity and dignity of farmers, and restore biodiversity. This book is urgently needed. Everyone should read it.

Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change

VANDANA SHIVA

FOREWORD BY HANS R. HERREN

SYNERGETIC PRESS

SANTA FE LONDON

Copyright 2022 by Vandana Shiva

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shiva, Vandana, author.

Title: Agroecology and regenerative agriculture : sustainable solutions for hunger, poverty, and climate change / Vandana Shiva.

Other titles: Sustainable solutions for hunger, poverty, and climate change

Description: Santa Fe, NM : Synergetic Press, [2022] | Summary: This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis of research and practice carried out over decades by leaders of the agroecology and regenerative organic agriculture movement. It provides detailed analysis of the multiple crises we face due to chemical and industrial agriculture, including land degradation, water depletion, biodiversity erosion, climate change, agrarian crises, and health crises. The book lays out biodiversity based organic farming and agroecology as the road map for the future of agriculture and sustainable food systems (both locally and globally). With detailed scientific evidence, Agroecology & Regenerative Agriculture shows how ecological agriculture based on working with nature rather than abasing ecological laws can regenerate the planet, the rural economy, and our health-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021054025 | ISBN 9780907791935 (paperback) | ISBN 9780907791942 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Biodiversity. | Agricultural ecology. | Sustainable agriculture. | Organic farming.