Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, writer, environmentalist and feminist.Who's Who of Women and the Environment – Vandana Shiva. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Last visited 2012. Shiva has written more than 20 books. Shiva was born in Dehradun, present-day Uttarakhand. 

Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (with Jerry Mander, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin), and a figure of the anti-globalization movement.

She has rejected use of Genetically modified food, even as relief food given to survivors of disasters. Many have argued her arguments are Pseudoscientific. Sri Lanka adopted her ideas, which led to their 2022-2024 economic crisis.

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