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Giant transnational corporations are taking control of agriculture. To increase profits, uniformity is imposed. Diversity is replaced by monoculture. The transnational corporations push genetically engineered crops as the wave of the future. These crops are ecologically unstable and require huge inputs of chemicals and pesticides, thus posing health risks to consumers. The spread of monoculture and the destruction of diversity constitute a serious threat to the sustainability of the planet. February 23, 1999.
Helena Norberg-Hodge, a linguist by training and a native of Sweden, was educated in Europe and the United States. She is a leading critic of conventional notions of growth and development. In 1975, she went to Ladakh, in the northwestern Himalayas in India. Three years later she founded the Ladakh Project, with the goal of providing Ladakhis with the means to make more informed choices about their own future. Her work has received wide support and recognition. She is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Founder and Director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
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