Since it is the second most populated country, India is one of the most polluted nations in the world. Pollution has been creeping into the rural areas of the country as globalization and urbanization started spreading. Vandana Shiva has been vocal against the unhealthy practices in India that lead to polluting and harming the environment.
Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist, is also a renowned scholar, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization. For her contributions to the Indian environmental scenario, Vandana Shiva received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honour known as an ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’.
Her contributions include the assistance to grassroots organisations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with campaigns against advances in agricultural development via genetic engineering.
In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. This led to the creation of Navadanya in 1991, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade.
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