Vandana Shiva

Agriculture based on diversity, decentralization, and improving small farm productivity through ecological methods is a women-centered, nature-friendly agriculture.

Monocultures and monopolies symbolize patriarchal agriculture.

In the Third World, packaged food is promoted as the food of the rich, even though the rich in industrialized countries in fact eat fresh food, while the poor are forced to eat food that is heavily processed and packaged.

early industrial development in western Europe necessitated the permanent occupation of the colonies by the colonial powers and the destruction of the local ‘natural economy’.