KITAKYUSHU -- An award-winning environmental activist from India who specializes in agricultural and food issues warned that ongoing globalization could destroy the environment and called on women in particular to counter the trend.
Vandana Shiva, 47, who was here until Monday for a one-day conference on women and the environment, said globalization "wipes out farmers and small producers" and allows monopolization by large corporations that often adopt policies detrimental to the environment.
The founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in India served as a panelist at Sunday's Women's Conference on the Environment in Asia and the Pacific, which was held on the sidelines of a ministerial conference of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.