ABSTRACT
Vandana Shiva is certainly in 2017 one of today's key environmental voices on the global stage. Her leadership and commitment to the preservation of the planet and the world's expanding underclass of poverty-stricken farmers, found mostly in developing regions, and the majority women, is unprecedented, and she was deservedly rewarded with the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. But to say that Shiva is an environmentalist, or an ecofeminist, is to sell her short. Vandana Shiva is a fearless intellectual, tireless in her efforts to overturn existing or impending injustice which prevails within the institutional halls of government and academy. Internationally, Dr. Shiva initiated the women's movement on food, agriculture, patents and biotechnology. Shiva saw that the second Green Revolution paved the way for human rights, including the right to a livelihood, to be exchanged for property rights protecting the processes of biotechnology.
