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The Vandana Shiva Reader
No full text“Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity.”—Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world’s most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty.
In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva’s research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry’s dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration.
This important volume illuminates Shiva’s profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.
Vandana Shiva is the director of Navdanya in India. A physicist, philosopher, and feminist, she is the author of more than twenty books and the recipient of more than twenty international awards.
The Vandana Shiva Reader provides an important East-West agrarian bridge connecting two of the world’s great democracies and their struggles with industrial agriculture as it drives out sustainable alternatives, destroying both ecosystems and human communities along the way. To read Dr. Shiva’s work is to feel the power of a fertile theoretical mind engaged in fierce and inspirational acts of resistance. Hers is a unique voice. -- Bill Vitek, coeditor of The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
Vandana Shiva stands alone as an powerful critic of industrial agriculture. The clarity of her voice and the commitment of her life work are evident in this reader. There are few who match her tireless dedication to seeds and their life generating capacities. As this book shows, she is blazing a path toward healthy soil and food for future generations. -- Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University
Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among the economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity. -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Vandana Shiva has had an enormous impact on how we view the world around us; it is a hugely valuable service to have her key writings in one place for easy reference. Because we should refer to them often! -- Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
The Vandana Shiva Reader is a thought-provoking challenge to the notion that modern methods and technologies of farming are helping feed people around the world. -- Tennessee Library Associationhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_environmental_sciences/1004/thumbnail.jp
Supplemental Material - Global Research Trends on Gait Rehabilitation in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury- A Bibliometric Analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Global Research Trends on Gait Rehabilitation in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury- A Bibliometric Analysis by Vandana Phadke, Ridhi Sharma, Navita Sharma, and Shambhovi Mitra in Global Spine Journal.</p
Blockchain application with specific reference to smart contracts in the insurance sector
No full textThe term blockchain was coined in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Initially, it
was used for carrying out decentralised transactions to solve the problem of
fake transactions. In the past few years, this was explored extensively for
cryptocurrency only, but, over some time, its potential has been explored in
many areas. The major reason for the growing interest in this particular technology is that it provides a secure, reliable, and trusted platform to perform
digital activities. This is executed without the involvement of any third party.
Once the data is entered into the nodes, it is impossible to tamper it. Though
blockchain is costly, it provides better solutions to many research problems in
real- time. In recent times, researchers have explored blockchain in deep and
used it in many applications such as building smart contracts, supply chain
management, digital identity providers, voting systems, banking, and finance
applications, P2P learning, and insurance sectors. Through this chapter, the
readers will get a systematic and detailed study of blockchain in the insurance
sector and smart contracts and its current applications in the insurance sector.
This chapter will also provide a fair idea of blockchain technology in the
insurance sector and its usage in specific applications. In the end, a relevant
set of further reading references will be provided
-hii: Modality meets exclusivity
No full textThis work examines the meaning of the Hindi particle ‘-hii’ and sheds new light on the link between modality and words like ‘only.’ Our two new judgment studies reveal that ‘-hii’ indicates exclusivity (like 'only,' and other similar lexical items) and also can associate with either the MIN or MAX of a scale of propositional alternatives. More specifically, the alternatives are ordered based on speaker conceptions of likelihood or of desirability, and which endpoint is felicitous with ‘-hii’ depends on which scale is made salient by the discourse context. Since existing analyses of 'only' and 'even' are insufficient for capturing the presuppositions of ‘-hii’ that are revealed by the experimental data, we draw on the recent theoretical literature on modality to map these ranking types of ‘-hii’ to epistemic, bouletic, and teleological modality types that form its core scalar felicity condition. Besides helping to formalize the varied types of speaker expectations needed by ‘-hii’, this move helps to explain some differences between the likelihood and desirability contexts' patterning of data in our experimental results.Paper presented at the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC), March 20-22, 2015, and published in the Working Papers as part of the Proceedings of the 39th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference
sj-docx-1-jiv-10.1177_08862605231162887 – Supplemental material for Optimizing the Construction of Outcome Measures for Impact Evaluations of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Interventions
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jiv-10.1177_08862605231162887 for Optimizing the Construction of Outcome Measures for Impact Evaluations of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Interventions by Sangeeta Chatterji, Christopher Boyer, Vandana Sharma, Tanya Abramsky, Ruti Levtov, Kate Doyle, Sheila Harvey and Lori Heise in Journal of Interpersonal Violence</p
Can Horticulture be a Success Story For India?
Get PDFIndia is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world after China. Since the 1980s, the international trade in fruits and vegetables has expanded rapidly. The number of commodities as well as the number of varieties produced and traded have increased manifold during the past 25 years. There is an overall increase in the demand for fruits and vegetables for consumption both in the fresh and the processed form. Also there is a wide diversification in production pattern globally. Income in this sector is increasing which is indeed driving the supply. In spite of being one of the largest producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, the export competitiveness among the Indian producers remains low. But with new marketing initiatives, the post-harvest losses and the wastage due to poor infrastructure facilities, such as storage and transportation, have been reduced to a considerable extent. Yet a lot needs to be done in this sector. In an effort to overcome some of the problems associated with this sector, the case study of the successful SAFAL Market is presented in the paper. The study has observed a shift in cropping pattern in favour of horticulture in India in the past one-and-a-half decades. Analysis of the economic feasibility of this shift away from cereals to fruits and vegetable shows that its economically viable and beneficial to shift towards horticulture production, but this diversification needs to be planned in a systematic manner. Certain strategies and policies are also suggested in this regards. The study confirms the changing consumption patterns and diversification, along with the outlook for the next 15-20 years in the light of shortage of supply to increased domestic demand. The major exports from India are mango, grapes, orange, apple, banana, mosambi, onion, potato, tomato and pumpkins. The major share of Indias exports of fresh fruits and vegetables go to Bangladesh, Nepal, UAE, UK and Malaysia. The supply constraints, yield gaps and huge logistic costs affect our competitive and comparative advantage in world trade market. In this study the nominal protection coefficient and revealed comparative advantage are computed to check on the existing status. Study also identifies the potential states for the fruits and vegetables, for which India is globally competitive and has comparative advantage in production. These states should be targeted for enhancing the export potential of the country. The potential competing countries are also identified. Lessons from other developing countries focus on the growth of the horticulture sector through increased participation of small and marginal farmers in an organized manner and farmers being trained with entrepreneurial skills.Horticulture, Cost Benefit Ratio, competitiveness, Comparative Advantage, SAFAL Market
Supplementary_Table_1 - Effects of Turmeric and Curcumin Dietary Supplementation on Human Gut Microbiota: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study
No full textSupplementary_Table_1 for Effects of Turmeric and Curcumin Dietary Supplementation on Human Gut Microbiota: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study by Christine T. Peterson, Alexandra R. Vaughn, Vandana Sharma, Deepak Chopra, Paul J. Mills, Scott N. Peterson, and Raja K. Sivamani in Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine</p
La mirada del ecofeminismo (tres textos)
No full textTo extend the look on the articulating axes between feminism and proposals for planetary sustainability, three texts of Vandana Shiva, one of the central figures in the world in the field of ecofeminism are posted here. In them the author presents new ways of seeing and understanding concepts such as poverty and democracy, impeaches development as a culturally biased project, which destroys the healthy and sustainable lifestyles and creates material poverty, and denounces violence of corporate globalization.feminism, gender discourse, Latin America, subjective dimension of beingPara ampliar la mirada sobre los ejes articuladores entre el feminismo y las propuestas de sustentabilidad planetaria, se presentan tres textos de Vandana Shiva, una de las figuras centrales en el mundo, en el ámbito del ecofeminismo. La autora expone nuevas formas de mirar y comprender conceptos como pobreza y democracia; denuncia el desarrollo como proyecto culturalmente tendencioso que destruye los estilos de vida sanos y sostenibles y crea pobreza material; y denuncia la violencia de la globalización corporativa
Hydraulic properties of recycled wood material
No full textLeachate from ground wood stockpiled at recycling facilities may be detrimental to water quality. Although mathematical modeling of water movement through stockpiles may help estimate leachate quantity, information on water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of wood particles needed to run the models are unavailable. Our objectives were to (a) estimate the hydraulic properties of field stockpiled wood material, (b) assess performance of three models of pore structure in simulating water flow, and (c) determine relationships between optimized hydraulic parameters and particle size. The particle size distributions (PSDs) of thirty samples collected from stockpiles of coarsely and finely ground wood were measured, and their geometric mean diameters (dg) and distribution spreads (So) were used to establish two groups (I and II), with Group I samples having greater dg values for any given So than Group II samples. Six samples with PSDs representative of both groups were selected for hydraulic characterization. Material was packed in acrylic flow cells and outflow was induced by applying successive pressure potentials of -2, -10 and -40 cm to the bottom of the cells. Water retention data from outflow tests and from steady state measurements carried out in pressure extractors at potentials of -200, -500, -2000 and -10000 cm were fitted to unimodal and bimodal water retention functions. Inverse modeling of outflow data was performed using the software HYDRUS-1D and assuming (1) a unimodal pore-size distribution-SPM, (2) a bimodal pore-size distribution –DPM, (3) two distinct and interacting pore domains each with their own water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions-DPeM. Wood material released almost 50% of their total water at -2 cm with Group I samples releasing significantly higher volumes than Group II. All models of pore structure captured outflow dynamics. Statistical tests indicated that the DPeM followed by the SPM were the best models for conductivity and the DPM for water retention. Parameters of hydraulic models could be estimated from PSD data. Predictions by all models indicate that hydraulic conductivity of the unsaturated material is very low (around 0.09 cm/hr at -10 cm), suggesting that water would move slowly through stockpiles except during intense rainfalls.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Vandana Subro
La mirada del ecofeminismo (tres textos)
Get PDFPara ampliar la mirada sobre los ejes articuladores entre el feminismo y las propuestas de sustentabilidad planetaria, se presentan tres textos de Vandana Shiva, una de las figuras centrales en el mundo, en el ámbito del ecofeminismo. La autora expone nuevas formas de mirar y comprender conceptos como pobreza y democracia; denuncia el desarrollo como proyecto culturalmente tendencioso que destruye los estilos de vida sanos y sostenibles y crea pobreza material; y denuncia la violencia de la globalización corporativa.Afin d’enrichir notre vision sur les axes qui articulent le féminisme et les propositions de durabilité planétaire, trois écrits de Vandana Shiva sont ici présentés, l’une des figures centrales de l’écoféminisme dans le monde. L’auteure expose de nouvelles formes de regard et de compréhension des concepts tels que la pauvreté et la démocratie ; elle dénonce le développement comme un projet culturellement tendancieux qui détruit les modes de vie sains et durables et génère une pauvreté matérielle ; et dénonce la violence de la mondialisation corporative.To extend the look on the articulating axes between feminism and proposals for planetary sustainability, three texts of Vandana Shiva, one of the central figures in the world in the field of ecofeminism are posted here. In them the author presents new ways of seeing and understanding concepts such as poverty and democracy, impeaches development as a culturally biased project, which destroys the healthy and sustainable lifestyles and creates material poverty, and denounces violence of corporate globalization.feminism, gender discourse, Latin America, subjective dimension of bein
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