Summary - Selection 41

Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva makes an argument for the unrecognized women of the farming industry. Using their natural abilities to nurture for the argument, Shiva believes that because women can work multiple tasks, including sustaining their own families. All of their abilities lead them to conserve biodiversity, as opposed to genetically modify as corporations do. Because their knowledge is culturally embedded from a past that clearly has been working, recognition of the women farmers around the globe and their value is key to conserving biodiversity. Unfortunately companies such as Monsantos are still arguing for GMO's while women of Third World countries silently do the work of many while feeding many.