Articles by Vandana Shiva

Eucalyptus in Rainfed Farm Forestry Prescription for Desertification J Bandyopadhyay Vandana Shiva IN the countries of the South desertification is becoming an increasingly severe threat to human survival. The recently published UNEP report on desertification gives the estimate that about 3.5 million hectares of productive and fertile rainfed land is being lost to this ever-expanding threat. The contemporary food crisis in Africa is the most vivid experience of what desertification entails in human and economic terms. It is also a reminder of the fact that the economic problems of the poorest of mankind are rooted in the ecological destruction caused by the excessive resource demands of the elites of the world who manipulate the pattern of natural resource utilisation in the advancement of their economic privileges.

People and Forests: Crucial Fight Ahead Vandana Shiva People and Forests by Desmond
EVER since the. management of the forests in India went out of the hands of the forest dwelling communities and into the hands of the British rulers, there has been a continuous abridgement of the local people's rights to the forests.1 It was expected that the Forest Bill drafted for the first time in free India would take a different course. However, social activists working among the forest dwelling communities saw in the new Forest Bill, 1980, an increased threat to the life-support system of these communities. Several organisations in the country, as a result, organised a conference in Delhi in April 1982 to discus the ways and means for altering the content of the proposed Forest Bill. The monograph under review is a product of that meeting. It is therefore proper to view the monograph in the perspective the people's mobilisation against the repressive aspects of the proposed Forest Bill and not independent of it.