Vandana Shiva Rocks the House. By Tom Phillfpot, Grist, October 26, 2008. "I've just come out of the most hopeful and interesting discussions of climate change I've ever witnessed. Anchored by Indian food-sovereignty activist Vandana Shiva [founder of Navdanya], the panel discussion at Terra Madre's [2008 biannual international conference, convening in Turin] unveiled a new Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Safety [PDF, 56 pp], drawn up by the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture. The room was packed beyond capacity with at least 400 people, and the discussion was translated through headsets into eight languages. The document under discussion is brisk, lucid, and to the point... To me, Shiva and her multinational crew of colleagues (other commission members include Wendell Berry, Jose Bové of Via Campesina, Frances Moore Lappé, and Alice Waters) have articulated a powerful new vision for confronting climate change -- one more potent even than Al Gore's famed slides and push for trade-based solutions. Where Gore dreams of a 'low-carbon' or even 'carbon-free' world, Shiva pines for a 'carbon-rich' future -- one in which agriculture systematically builds organic matter into the soil, capturing it from the atmosphere."
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