Check out eco-feminist and scholar drvandanashiva's insider guide to Uttarakhand. Environment NewIssue Travel Uttarakhand
, has recognised this award-winning quantum physicist, author, global sustainability expert and anti-GMO activist as one of the seven most powerful feminists in the world. Born in the Land of Gods, and a giant among her peers, Dr Vandana Shiva is a revolutionary thinker and, as I am able to tell within the first five minutes of our conversation, an orator par excellence.
You can enroll in a month-long course covering the A to Z of biodiversity, or even week-long ones, at Earth University or Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s learning centre. This country is one of rich biodiversity because we have multiple ecosystems here — deserts, rainforests, mountains, wetlands, arid zones. We also have the diversity of language and clothing.
We work in practically every valley in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, including the Yamuna valley, where the soil allows you to grow red rice. If you grow this ‘basmati of Dehradun’ outside the hill station, the grain may look the same, but it won’t have the same aroma.
We are planning one to Vidarbha — which has the highest farmer suicide rate in the country — and next year, we are hoping to do a huge Himalayan Earth Journey, from Ladakh to the North-East, via Kinnaur, in the northern part of Himachal Pradesh, Dehradun and the Navdanya farm.Dehradun, because I reclaimed my childhood memories through Navdanya. I tried to turn the farm into a reflection of the Uttarakhand that I grew up in, by bringing back the trees, for example.
Our community up in Yamuna Ghati has built an ecotourism centre in a village called Sangri. Here, visitors can partake of the local fare in a local’s house. We’ve built toilets in the homes of the people here and helped them to conserve their crafts. This brand of sustainable tourism has been a big success, and the villagers are running with it on their own now.
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