Vandana Shiva Slams Walmart
Channel: Poorva Paksha
Date: 2012-07-27

Dr. Vandana Shiva, a fighter for Indian cause, has filed a writ petition against Walmart Bharti for allegedly using Bharti Easyday as a front organisation to enter Indian retail trade illegally. This threatens livelihood of hundreds of millions of Indians engaged in retail trade and related activities. There is no need for FDI in retail trade. It is a sector which is served very efficiently by people of India. We do not need predators in this area. Dr. Vandana Shiva, Director of Navdanya is in the forefront of fight against juggernaut of Walmart which is threatening to destroy hundreds of millions of Indians. Walmart is ostensibly aided by corrupt politicians and media. But Dr. Vandana Shiva is no puny fighter.

Navdanya started as a program of the Research Foundation for science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative founded by world-renowned scientist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva, to provide direction and support to environmental activism.
Navdanya means nine crops that represent India's collective source of food security. The main aim of the Navdanya biodiversity conservation programme is to support local farmers, rescue and conserve crops and plants that are being pushed to extinction and make them available through direct marketing.
Navdanya is actively involved in the rejuvenation of indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defended people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation.
It has its own seed bank and organic farm spread over an area of 20 acres in Uttrakhand, North India.
Navdanya has so far successfully conserved more than 5000 crop varieties including 3000 of rice, 95 of wheat, 150 of kidney beans (rajma), 15 of millets and and several varieties of pulses, vegetable, medicinal plants etc.
Website: http://www.navdanya.org