Vandana Shiva to address 6th ‘Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration’

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Vandana Shiva to address 6th ‘Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration’

Thursday, 05 September 2019 | PNS | Jamshedpur

Noted scholar and environmental activist Vandana Shiva will address the 6th ‘Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration on Sustainable Development’ on September 21 at XLRI Campus, Jamshedpur.

Fr. P. Christie director of XLRI said: “Dr. Verghese Kurien was an ingenious thinker, a revolutionary and a social entrepreneur who ideated the world's biggest agricultural development programme. It was his "billion-litre idea" which made dairy farming India's largest self-sustaining industry, with benefits of employment, incomes, credit, nutrition, education, heath, gender parity & empowerment, breaking down caste barriers and grassroots democracy and leadership. XLRI instituted the oration in his memory with the aim to commemorate his legacy through propagating and disseminating the idea of an empowered, equitable and sustainable society.”

“Dr. Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration on Sustainable Development is our humble initiative to pay tribute to the great visionary,” said Prof. Madhukar Shukla, Chairperson of XLRI’s Fr Arrupe Center for Ecology & Sustainability. “With this annual oration, we aim to inspire and inculcate values of entrepreneurial spirit in budding business leaders and social entrepreneurs”, he added.

Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian physicist and social activist. She founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy (RFSTN), an organisation devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture, in 1982.

She worked on grassroots campaigns to prevent clear-cut logging and the construction of large dams.  She was perhaps best known, however, as a critic of Asia’s Green Revolution, an international effort that began in the 1960s to increase food production in less-developed countries through higher-yielding seed stocks and the increased use of pesticides and fertilizers. The Green Revolution, she maintained, had led to pollution, a loss of indigenous seed diversity and traditional agricultural knowledge, and the troubling dependence of poor farmers on costly chemicals. In response, RFSTE scientists established seed banks throughout India to preserve the country’s agricultural heritage while training farmers in sustainable agricultural practices. In 1991, Dr. Shiva launched Navdanya.

The project, part of RFSTE, strove to combat the growing tendency toward monoculture promoted by large corporations.

She has also launched Diverse Women for Diversity, an international version of Navdanya and opened Bija Vidyapeeth, a school and organic farm offering month-long courses in sustainable living and agriculture, near Dehra Dun in 2001.

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