What is the only answer to the food and nutrition crisis in india according to vandana shiva in Everything i need to know i learned in the forest
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In this informative essay, Vandana Shiva tells us how she learnt about environmentalism from the uneducated women of Garhwal, Himalaya. Her father was a forest conservator and her mother was a farmer. She learnt a lot about ecology from the Himalayan forests. Her involvement began with `Chipko'. In the 1970s. peasant women from her region had come out to save trees. All women declared that they would hug the trees and the loggers would have to kill them before killing the trees.
Vandana Shiva decided to become a volunteer for the Chipko Movement and went for pada yatras documenting the deforestation and the work of the forest activities and created awareness about Chipko Movement, Bachni Devi, a village woman led resistance against her own husband who had obtained a contract to cut trees. The women told the officials that they had Come to teach them forestry. From Chipko, she learnt about bio-diversity and she described the importance of bio-diversity in her book, 'Monoculture of the Mind'. She started saving seeds and started Navadanya Farm in 1994 in the Doon Valley. They conserve and grow 630 varieties of rice, 150 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species and got more yield which became a solution to the problem of food and nutrition crisis. Then she started seed banks across India and instructed and pleaded the farmers to make transition from fossil fuel and chemical based monocultures to bio-diverse ecological systems nourished by the sun and the soil.
The United Nations General Assembly organized a conference on harmony with Nature as part of Earth Day Celebration. It is significant to note that Ecuador has recognized the rights of nature in its constitution. The discussion was about the ways to transform systems based on domination of people over nature, men over women and rich over poor into new systems based on partnership. The importance of reconnecting with Nature is stressed all human beings are an inseparable part of nature and if we do any harm to nature it is harming ourselves. Cormac Cullinan says that we need to overcome the wider and deeper apartheid-an-eco--apartheid based on the illusion of separateness of humans from nature in our minds and lives.
Today it is the need of hour to stop thinking that our living Earth is transformed into dead matter. One should look at nature as a living nurturing mother. We need to move away from the paradigm of nature as dead matter. We should take a shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism. We should recognise, protect and respect the rights of other species.
Tagore in his essay ‘Tapovan' speaks of the forest as the source of regeneration and the source of India's best ideas. The peace of the forest has helped the intellectual evolution of man. He speaks of unity in diversity and the forest as a source of knowledge and freedom. The forest teaches us union and compassion.
We have to enjoy the gifts of nature without exploitation and accumulation. We should find enjoyment through renunciation and certainly not through greed of possession. If at all we want the joy of living, we need to put an end to consumerism and accumulation. Thus Vandana Shiva says that the forests teach us the values of diversity, freedom and co-existence.