in early twenty sixteen vandana shiva holder of the right livelihood award introduced her new book on pulses. why it's a plea for reintroducing lentils into small scale farming banned for their consumption. there's original. and not. off so it out. one hundred that it. vandana shiva runs an organization called now which means nine seeds it promotes the organic farming of traditional crops all over india including lentils. and shiver sees a great danger in importing lentils from canada. we are talking about a graph that will keep growing not only will the better pulses organically produce disappear but the dependency will be so huge that you need one bad year of climate and you're going to have an absolute disaster so we've got to get it right on pulses and lengths to get it right and everything else and how can a poisonous breed feed be called clean field this doublespeak must stand. vandana shiva who has a degree in quantum physics grew up here in the capital of a north indian state of water canned. here at the foot of the himalayas she's created her own organic farm. thirty years on

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