var video = {"poster_frame": 7039, "creator": "annemie", "height": 72, "notes_html": "", "duration": 424891, "id": "Vhm6jxoh", "date_html": "October 2008", "description_html": "The video is a summary of an interview conducted with Vandana Shiva during the workshop and seminar \u2018The Future of Food\u2019 on the Navdanya-farm in Dehradun, India - early october 2008.\r<br />\r<br />Navdanya is a project started by Vandana Shiva. The organisation provides direction and support to environmental activism. 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. It defends people&#39;s knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation.\r<br />\r<br />Diverse Women for Diversity is a specific division of Navdanya that provides women with a common international platform to air their views. It supports women&#39;s grassroots movements by uniting their voice from the local level to global fora and international negotiations. Diverse Women for Diversity conducts a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms.\r<br />\r<br />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.\r<br />\r<br />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. Urban agriculture promotes energy-saving local food production and is therefore considered as a sustainable practice.", "title": "Open Greens : interview with Vandana Shiva", "discussion": "", "languages": ["english"], "source": "Politics of Change (PoC)", "location": "Dehradun - India", "mail": "annemie@so-on.be", "size": 57190170, "local": false, "description": "The video is a summary of an interview conducted with Vandana Shiva during the workshop and seminar \u2018The Future of Food\u2019 on the Navdanya-farm in Dehradun, India - early october 2008.\r\n\r\nNavdanya is a project started by Vandana Shiva. The organisation provides direction and support to environmental activism. 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. It defends people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalisation.\r\n\r\nDiverse Women for Diversity is a specific division of Navdanya that provides women with a common international platform to air their views. It supports women's grassroots movements by uniting their voice from the local level to global fora and international negotiations. Diverse Women for Diversity conducts a non-violent resistance and opposition to globalisation, emergency of genetic engineering and patents on life forms.\r\n\r\nNavdanya 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.\r\n\r\nWhat 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. Urban agriculture promotes energy-saving local food production and is therefore considered as a sustainable practice.", "discussion_html": "", "editable": 0, "collection": "ogeem.be", "director": "Annemie Maes", "lists": ["L1", "L6", "L9", "Lg", "Li", "Lb", "Lc", "Lj", "Lk", "Ll", "Lm"], "date": "2008-10", "aspectratio": 1.77777777778, "categories": ["Open Greens", "diversity", "ecology"], "stream_width": "128", "created": 1267016159, "notes": "", "modified": 1274867165, "urls": {"128": "http://padma.okno.be/v/128/Vhm6jxoh.ogv", "320": "http://padma.okno.be/v/320/Vhm6jxoh.ogv"}, "published": 1267358277, "width": 128};