Healing the Earth with Vandana Shiva: Regenerative Agriculture and Indigenous Leadership

Vandana Shiva, who has been working to protect the Earth and its biodiversity for 50 years, emphasizes grassroots movements led by Indigenous women to protect natural regions from deforestation, which can lead to disasters. Shiva believes Indigenous peoples and lands hold the key to healing the Earth and that women's leadership is crucial to achieving this. She advocates for protecting forests, seeds, and traditional agricultural practices and undoing paradigms that define damaging the Earth as "progress."

In this video, Shiva highlights the importance of understanding the impact of natural food production without the use of Fossil Chemicals, and shifting towards regenerating the land, biodiversity, and soil health, especially through protecting natural Seeds. She believes that healing the Earth and healing humanity through social justice are fundamentally interconnected, and to heal broken systems of both, we need to make them whole again. Sustainability and justice go hand in hand, thereby sustainability is justice for the Earth.

Regenerative agriculture is important because it creates food that gives energy, heals, regenerates, holds together, and creates relationships. Vandana Shiva believes that ordinary people who care have the power to protect the environment against powerful interests, as demonstrated by the Chipko movement in India. She emphasizes the importance of protecting seeds from being patented or genetically modified, and she believes that love is always stronger than destructive tendencies.

We sincerely thank Vandana for her decades of great work and for having this fruitful conversation with us - may she continue to be an inspiring light for Earth healing!

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/xyp5TStRx8k
Website post: https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/?p=6110