Description: Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.
Brief description: Ronnie Cummins is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, US-based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just, and regenerative system of food, farming, and commerce. Cummins also serves on the steering committee of Regeneration International and OCA's Mexican affiliate, Vía Orgánica. His latest book Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal was published in February 2020. He is based in Minnesota and San Miguel de Allende Mexico.
Review Quotes:
"All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva." -Jane Goodall
"A powerful, deeply moving call to rethink the very way we understand life, including our own." -Frances Moore Lappe
"As she has, nonstop for 30 years, Vandana Shiva has done it again. Reclaiming the Commons is a magnificent, profound, timely and politically vital book." -Jerry Mander