var layers = [{"value_html": "Navdanya is a project started by Vandana Shiva.<br />The organisation provides direction and support to environmental activism. <br />Navdanya is actively involved in the protection of indigenous knowledge and culture. It spreads out as a growing network of students and teachers, creating awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering. <br />It defends people&#39;s knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation.<br /><br />Vandana Shiva:<br />So many of the people who are today leading organic farmers are people who have come here for training.<br />When I travel the lenght and breadth of this country, I will meet farmers that have been here for training and tell me that 10 years ago they were here 11 years ago they were here, 15 years ago they were here ...<br /><br />Right here in this course you can see the farmers who have come here will go back to their areas and be the teachers of organic farming. In any case the teachers today in Navdanya, wether it be Dharma, Bhuja Devi or ... etcetera ... are farmers who were taught by me.<br />And today they are teaching others, farmers and not farmers about good farming.<br />So we defenitely believe in this spreading of the knowledge and students becoming teachers.", "track": "transcript", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267266652, "value": "Navdanya is a project started by Vandana Shiva.\nThe organisation provides direction and support to environmental activism. \nNavdanya is actively involved in the protection of indigenous knowledge and culture. It spreads out as a growing network of students and teachers, creating awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering. \nIt defends people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation.\n\nVandana Shiva:\nSo many of the people who are today leading organic farmers are people who have come here for training.\nWhen I travel the lenght and breadth of this country, I will meet farmers that have been here for training and tell me that 10 years ago they were here 11 years ago they were here, 15 years ago they were here ...\n\nRight here in this course you can see the farmers who have come here will go back to their areas and be the teachers of organic farming. In any case the teachers today in Navdanya, wether it be Dharma, Bhuja Devi or ... etcetera ... are farmers who were taught by me.\nAnd today they are teaching others, farmers and not farmers about good farming.\nSo we defenitely believe in this spreading of the knowledge and students becoming teachers.", "created": 1267259397, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 75000, "id": "L8"}, {"value_html": "Navdanya", "track": "location", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457605, "value": "Navdanya", "created": 1267457605, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 422000, "id": "Le"}, {"value_html": "Dehradun", "track": "location", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457573, "value": "Dehradun", "created": 1267457573, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 422000, "id": "Lc"}, {"value_html": "India", "track": "location", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457590, "value": "India", "created": 1267457590, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 422000, "id": "Ld"}, {"value_html": "From october 1st till october 7th, I followed a workshop/residence at the Navdanya Farm of Vandana Shiva, in Dehradun, North India.<br />Participants made up a diverse mix of scientists, strategic thinkers, artists, farmers and students. We discussed Genetically Modified Organisms (a case study: Percy Schmeiser\u2019s war against Monsanto), Biological Commons, Fair Trade and the Organic Revolution.<br />Before and after the lectures and discussions, we practised yoga in the early morning, worked on the farmland in the afternoons and did some great collective cooking in the evening (all with organically grown products from the farm).<br /><br />The footage is a summary of an interview I did with Vandana Shiva during the Future of Food workshop. We sat down for a while under the pergola on the Navdanya-farm, to discuss topics as alternative forms of education, the role of women, the importance of traditional knowledge and urban agriculture.<br /><br />further reading:<br />Principles for Food Security in times of Climate Change:<br /><a href=\"http://thoughtsandtalks.so-on.be/2010/01/30/navdanya-future-of-food/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thoughtsandtalks.so-on.be/2010/01/30/navdanya-future-of-food/</a><br />The Future of Food Manifesto (download):<br /><a href=\"http://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/future_of_food.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/future_of_food.pdf</a><br />Vandana Shiva on the Future of Food (download):<br /><a href=\"http://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/Shiva_V_The_Future_of_Food.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/Shiva_V_The_Future_of_Food.pdf</a>", "track": "description", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267266412, "value": "From october 1st till october 7th, I followed a workshop/residence at the Navdanya Farm of Vandana Shiva, in Dehradun, North India.\nParticipants made up a diverse mix of scientists, strategic thinkers, artists, farmers and students. We discussed Genetically Modified Organisms (a case study: Percy Schmeiser\u2019s war against Monsanto), Biological Commons, Fair Trade and the Organic Revolution.\nBefore and after the lectures and discussions, we practised yoga in the early morning, worked on the farmland in the afternoons and did some great collective cooking in the evening (all with organically grown products from the farm).\n\nThe footage is a summary of an interview I did with Vandana Shiva during the Future of Food workshop. We sat down for a while under the pergola on the Navdanya-farm, to discuss topics as alternative forms of education, the role of women, the importance of traditional knowledge and urban agriculture.\n\nfurther reading:\nPrinciples for Food Security in times of Climate Change:\nhttp://thoughtsandtalks.so-on.be/2010/01/30/navdanya-future-of-food/\nThe Future of Food Manifesto (download):\nhttp://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/future_of_food.pdf\nVandana Shiva on the Future of Food (download):\nhttp://so-on.be/SO-ON/articles/Shiva_V_The_Future_of_Food.pdf", "created": 1267023621, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 423000, "id": "L6"}, {"value_html": "navdanya", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457771, "value": "navdanya", "created": 1267457771, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Lf"}, {"value_html": "vandana shiva", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457779, "value": "vandana shiva", "created": 1267457779, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Lg"}, {"value_html": "organic agriculture", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457793, "value": "organic agriculture", "created": 1267457792, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Lh"}, {"value_html": "biodiversity", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457818, "value": "biodiversity", "created": 1267457818, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Li"}, {"value_html": "ecology", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457825, "value": "ecology", "created": 1267457825, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Lj"}, {"value_html": "gmo", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267457834, "value": "gmo", "created": 1267457834, "time_in": 0, "time_out": 424000, "id": "Lk"}, {"value_html": "Diverse Women for Diversity is a specific division of Navdanya that provides women with a common international platform to air their views. <br />It supports women&#39;s grassroots movements by uniting their voice from the local level to global fora and international negotiations. <br />Diverse Women for Diversity conducts a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms.<br /><br />Vandana Shiva:<br />You know I put a lot of hope in change through women.<br />Not only ... because ... philosophically I think that&#39;s the way it will happen but in my lifetime of 35 years, every movement I have been part of it&#39;s the women who were the main stay.<br />Because women haven&#39;t been groomed in impatience women haven&#39;t been groomed in the quick return. They&#39;ve been groomed in the long term. And so they put up the long term transformation. With patience.<br />The other very high quality that women bring to transformation is the quality of sharing. And that&#39;s also very special to Navdanya that ... the senior people of Navdanya are all women.<br />Maya, Rita, Lada, Mira, Bhurji ... all of us are women and we share, very freely, all the time.<br />We share responsability, we share knowledge, we share everything. We share authority.<br />And that also makes up for a very different tide of atmosphere. Just as ... when certain plants are growing together you won&#39;t have pests when we have cooperation amongst ourselves you don&#39;t have the kind of vulnerability that you would have when you stood only by yourself.<br /><br />Urban-rural devide is a recent devide. In the time of our grandmothers<br />there was no urban-rural devide. The women of the cities were as knowledgeable about good food as women of the villages.<br />And many women of the cities have very close links with homes that have been in the villages.<br />So it&#39;s also an urban phenomena the grandmothers&#39; reach of a nation.", "track": "transcript", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267267413, "value": "Diverse Women for Diversity is a specific division of Navdanya that provides women with a common international platform to air their views. \nIt supports women's grassroots movements by uniting their voice from the local level to global fora and international negotiations. \nDiverse Women for Diversity conducts a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms.\n\nVandana Shiva:\nYou know I put a lot of hope in change through women.\nNot only ... because ... philosophically I think that's the way it will happen but in my lifetime of 35 years, every movement I have been part of it's the women who were the main stay.\nBecause women haven't been groomed in impatience women haven't been groomed in the quick return. They've been groomed in the long term. And so they put up the long term transformation. With patience.\nThe other very high quality that women bring to transformation is the quality of sharing. And that's also very special to Navdanya that ... the senior people of Navdanya are all women.\nMaya, Rita, Lada, Mira, Bhurji ... all of us are women and we share, very freely, all the time.\nWe share responsability, we share knowledge, we share everything. We share authority.\nAnd that also makes up for a very different tide of atmosphere. Just as ... when certain plants are growing together you won't have pests when we have cooperation amongst ourselves you don't have the kind of vulnerability that you would have when you stood only by yourself.\n\nUrban-rural devide is a recent devide. In the time of our grandmothers\nthere was no urban-rural devide. The women of the cities were as knowledgeable about good food as women of the villages.\nAnd many women of the cities have very close links with homes that have been in the villages.\nSo it's also an urban phenomena the grandmothers' reach of a nation.", "created": 1267262973, "time_in": 75000, "time_out": 209000, "id": "La"}, {"value_html": "diverse women for diversity", "track": "keyword", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267458000, "value": "diverse women for diversity", "created": 1267458000, "time_in": 76000, "time_out": 208000, "id": "Ll"}, {"value_html": "Navdanya organises on a regular basis workshops, seminars and hands-on actions. Informal communities for learning versus formal education : what can we learn from it? At the Navdanya events we find a colourful mix of participants : experts, students, teachers, DIY-ers and workers, activists and artists. Together they create a horizontal network that expands organically in a self-organising way.<br /><br />Vandana Shiva:<br />Particularly in this particular era<br />of 2008 I think classical education is becoming totally irrelevant. It was always a bit slow, it was never up to speed with changing reality.<br />How many economics graduates know how to deal with the Wall street collapse? How many agriculture graduates know how to deal with the food crisis or know why it&#39;s happening? How many natural science graduates know how to deal with climate change?<br />So the real crises that are facing us are: the formal education that is not equipping us to deal with it. So we do need these other centers<br />of learning, where the reality of challenges is addressed at the pace at which these challenges are emerging.<br /><br />And I think these informal communities of learning through these kind of centers of learning is the kind of education that will spread increasingly to equip people to deal with the challenges of today.<br />This particular course [future of food] is a combination of - I believe - the topics are put in the word [the future of food] ... on biodiversity, food safety, farmers rights.<br />Tewolde, Percy Schmeisser, Shiv Chopra, John Fagan ... these are the names of people who are shaping the future.<br />And they are here as teachers.<br />But also here, are a mixture of people, like you - an artist, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh, another farmer from Karnataka, students from universities<br />and colleges and it&#39;s this mix that makes up creativity.<br />It&#39;s very easy to teach people of the same class, of the same age, and get stuck, because they all have the same aspirations.<br />But when you put a mix like this, everyone is coming from a different place, and they add to the context of learning.", "track": "transcript", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267267952, "value": "Navdanya organises on a regular basis workshops, seminars and hands-on actions. Informal communities for learning versus formal education : what can we learn from it? At the Navdanya events we find a colourful mix of participants : experts, students, teachers, DIY-ers and workers, activists and artists. Together they create a horizontal network that expands organically in a self-organising way.\n\nVandana Shiva:\nParticularly in this particular era\nof 2008 I think classical education is becoming totally irrelevant. It was always a bit slow, it was never up to speed with changing reality.\nHow many economics graduates know how to deal with the Wall street collapse? How many agriculture graduates know how to deal with the food crisis or know why it's happening? How many natural science graduates know how to deal with climate change?\nSo the real crises that are facing us are: the formal education that is not equipping us to deal with it. So we do need these other centers\nof learning, where the reality of challenges is addressed at the pace at which these challenges are emerging.\n\nAnd I think these informal communities of learning through these kind of centers of learning is the kind of education that will spread increasingly to equip people to deal with the challenges of today.\nThis particular course [future of food] is a combination of - I believe - the topics are put in the word [the future of food] ... on biodiversity, food safety, farmers rights.\nTewolde, Percy Schmeisser, Shiv Chopra, John Fagan ... these are the names of people who are shaping the future.\nAnd they are here as teachers.\nBut also here, are a mixture of people, like you - an artist, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh, another farmer from Karnataka, students from universities\nand colleges and it's this mix that makes up creativity.\nIt's very easy to teach people of the same class, of the same age, and get stuck, because they all have the same aspirations.\nBut when you put a mix like this, everyone is coming from a different place, and they add to the context of learning.", "created": 1267263108, "time_in": 209000, "time_out": 352000, "id": "Lb"}, {"value_html": "What about urban vs. rural agriculture? Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in a town or city. It is mostly applied in reduced spaces as terraces and balconies. The farming practice is mostly organic and is mainly directed to domestic consumption. <br />Urban agriculture promotes energy-saving local food production and is therefore considered as a sustainable practice.<br /><br />Vandana Shiva:<br />And I think it&#39;s very important to have urban gardens but while we have urban gardens, I think it&#39;s also very important to remember that most food will come from rural areas, it will come from the countryside.<br />And that&#39;s why, in my view, urban gardeners should connect with farmers<br />and make one common movement, for turning the whole world into a garden.<br />Because industrial agriculture is trying to make agriculture into a factory it created factory farms, it created industrial monocultures, it turned agriculture into a factory.<br />Our challenge is, to turn agriculture in urban and rural areas into a garden again.", "track": "transcript", "creator": "annemie", "editable": 0, "modified": 1267268130, "value": "What about urban vs. rural agriculture? Urban agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in a town or city. It is mostly applied in reduced spaces as terraces and balconies. The farming practice is mostly organic and is mainly directed to domestic consumption. \nUrban agriculture promotes energy-saving local food production and is therefore considered as a sustainable practice.\n\nVandana Shiva:\nAnd I think it's very important to have urban gardens but while we have urban gardens, I think it's also very important to remember that most food will come from rural areas, it will come from the countryside.\nAnd that's why, in my view, urban gardeners should connect with farmers\nand make one common movement, for turning the whole world into a garden.\nBecause industrial agriculture is trying to make agriculture into a factory it created factory farms, it created industrial monocultures, it turned agriculture into a factory.\nOur challenge is, to turn agriculture in urban and rural areas into a garden again.", "created": 1267262684, "time_in": 353000, "time_out": 422000, "id": "L9"}];