Essays about: "Navdanya"

Found 2 essays containing the word Navdanya.

1. 1. If you shall critique something, then you have to create an alternative: A ethnographic study of Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm’s practices of farming with nature

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Tove Thernsjö; [2018]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic study of Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm, and their critique of the industrial agriculture and food system that focuses on agricultural intensification when the real issue is about food availability and distribution. The main critique is that industrial agriculture is based on extraction and focuses on profit rather than the livelihood of farmers. READ MORE

3. 2. An examination of seed saving as a technology of resistance: A case study within the premises of a biodiversity conservation farm in Uttarakhand, India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos; [2013]
   Keywords : India; seed saving; resistance; Swaraj; food sovereignty; Navdanya; organic farming; small-scale farmers; traditional ecological knowledge; emancipation; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The thesis aims to understand if seed saving practiced by oppressed small-scale farmers and peasants who are affiliated with Navdanya can be seen as a technology of resistance against the dominant agri-food industrial paradigm. Another aim is to find out how political and cultural meanings are attached to seed saving. READ MORE