Vandana Shiva, is an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory."She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/organisation/vandana-shiva
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/www.navdanya.org
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmentalists
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/organic-farming
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/seeds
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/crop-biodiversity
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity-conservation
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vandana-shiva
