What if ecofeminism showed us the way to a sustainable future? Meet Dr. Vandana Shiva, a woman committed to the Living

A researcher in quantum physics, philosopher, writer and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE, India), she has been fighting against the privatization of seeds, water and nature for nearly 50 years. Vandana Shiva blows the whistle on production-oriented agriculture leading to monoculture, the monopolization of resources, the overexploitation of water tables, the use of fossil fuels and deforestation. In that respect, she denounces the agri-food lobbies and their harmful consequences on food, health and thinking.

Dr. Shiva was able to establish a link between the ecological crisis, the exclusion of women and the dominant economic development model. According to her, the current crises we are facing – climate change, biodiversity decline, food and health crises… – are rooted in the denigration of nature (anthropocentrism) and of female productivity (androcene). Inspired by the Chipko movement that she discovered in the 1970s, she reminds us that human survival depends on the preservation of nature and emphasizes on the women key role in the protection of environment.