Andrew Kimbrell - Executive Director, Center for Food Safety

Andrew Kimbrell is a public interest attorney, activist and author. He has been involved in public interest legal activity in numerous areas of technology, human health and the environment. After working for eight years as the Policy Director at the Foundation for Economic Trends, Kimbrell established the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) in 1994 and the Center for Food Safety(CFS) in 1997. Kimbrell has written several books and given numerous public lectures on a variety of issues. He has been featured on radio and television programs across the country, including The Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Crossfire, Headlines on Trial, and Good Morning America. He has lectured at dozens of universities throughout the country and has testified before congressional and regulatory hearings. In 1994, the Utne Reader named Kimbrell as one of the world’s leading 100 visionaries.

Debi Barker - International Program Director, Center for Food Safety

Debbie Barker is the international director for the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a legal and public policy institute in Washington D.C.  She was formerly the director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), a think tank that analyses and critiques forms of economic globalization.

She recently authored The Predictable Rise and Fall of Global Industrial Agriculture, which highlights international policies causing ecological and social harm, and provides alternative strategies to the current food system.   She was on the international committee of authors for the United Nation’s major report released in 2008—the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), and co-authored The Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security (2008).  Ms. Barker has edited, co-authored and contributed to numerous other reports including: Invisible Government—The World Trade Organization (with Jerry Mander); Fatal Harvest:  The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture; Alternatives to Economic Globalization:  A Better World Is Possible.

Currently serving on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, Ms. Barker is also a member of the Committee on the Future of Food and Agriculture commissioned by the Tuscany, Italy, government.

Dr. Vandana Shiva – Director, Navdanya International

Physicist, ecologist, and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the founder and director of Navdanya International. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1993 (the alternative Nobel Peace Prize) and named among the top five “Most Important People in Asia” by AsiaWeek in 2001, Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most dynamic and provocative thinkers on the environment, women’s issues, and international affairs. She has written numerous books and also serves on the board of the International Forum on Globalization, and is chairperson of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture (ARSIA/Regione Toscana), is the vice president of Slow Food and a member of the executive committee of the World Future Council. She also directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, in New Delhi, India.

PUBLICATIONS:

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
By Vandana Shiva, October 2008
South End Press, $15 paperback original, ISBN: 9780896087828
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Manifesto on Climate Change and the Future of Food Security (2007)
Edited by Debbie Barker, Caroline Lockhart, & Vandana Shiva
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Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed (2007)
Edited by Vandana Shiva
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Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (2005)
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit (2004)
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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (2004)
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997)
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Alternatives to Economic Globalization (1994)
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology (1993)
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The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics (1992)
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WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT DR. SHIVA:

“Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.” -The Progressive

“Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people…. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.” -Ms. Magazine
“A woman leading a quiet revolution through seeds of change.” -Elle Magazine