Analysis Of Vandana Shiva's Article: Who Really Feeds The World?

Vandana Shiva’s monograph, Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful piece on the pitfalls of mankind in terms of agriculture. At the current moment, humanity is falling into an industrialized world that cares more about profit and genetic modification than it does about the sustainability of mankind’s practices on the Earth. Through Shiva’s influential monograph, the reader is subjected to the biases that occur throughout the books, as well as the beliefs of the writer. It is easy to see Shiva’s biases throughout the monograph, and even though she argues fundamental aspects of sustainability, one cannot help but get caught up in her wariness of the industrialized world and the idea of global economy and trade. Shiva argues that through seeds-saving, agroecology, and other sustainable practices, the world will be able to not only feed itself but repair some of the damage we have done.
If this such thing is to happen globally, each country, county, and town would be able to feed itself, thus lowering the global impact of food production. She also argues that there are many different paradigms that pressure the global food economy. One of these paradigms, Shiva explains, is the “knowledge paradigm of which [we] are a part, and the sophistication and sustainability of an agricultural farming system are dependent on the sophistication of the knowledge paradigm that governs it.” Through this statement, she argues that it is impossible for the change of agricultural systems without acknowledging the paradigms that exist within