01611nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000170005804000070007504100080008208200230009010000330011324501050014626000300025130000280028136500150030950000150032452009760033965000300131565000110134570000370135620210925060654.0210925b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a911126856795  cAL  aeng  223a150.8863bSHIS  aVandana Shiva; Kunwar Jalees  aSeeds of SuicidebThe Ecological and Human costs of seed Monopolies and Globalisation of agriculture  aNew DelhibNavdanyac2006  ax,298 p.bPBc28x21 cm.  f2013/03/24  aPsychology  aMay 22 has been declared International Biodiversity Day by the United Nations. It gives us an opportunity to become aware of the rich biodiversity that has been evolved by our farmers as co-creators with nature. It also provides an opportunity to acknowledge the threats to our biodiversity and our rights from IPR monopolies and monocultures.

Just as our Vedas and Upanishads have no individual authors, our rich biodiversity, including seeds, have been evolved cumulatively. They are a common heritage of present and future farm communities who have evolved them collectively. I recently joined tribals in Central India who have evolved thousands of rice varieties for their festival of “Akti”. Akti is a celebration of the relationship of the seed and the soil, and the sharing of the seed as a sacred duty to the Earth and the community.bhttp://www.asianage.com/columnists/seeds-suicide-692uhttps://www.libs.uga.edu/reserves/docs/scans/seeds%20of%20suicide.pdf  aFarmer Suicidal Behaviour  aStress  aSHIVA (Vandana); JALEES (Kunwar)