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Vandana Shiva is a physicist and philosopher of science. She is also an indefatigable activist] having played a key role in the famous Chipko movement to save the Himalayan forests. She is now director of the Research Foundation for science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in Dehradun] India] and is the science and environment adviser of the Third World Network. Her books include
MonOC:ulture of the Mind (1993)] Biotechnology and the Environment (1993) and Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (1989). In 1993] Shiva was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.

Radha Holla-Bhar is a researcher at the Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Natural Resource Policy. One of the many campaigns of this institute is to oppose patenting of life forms] particularly the wild plants and crops to which rural people of India have always had free access and that may now only be available to those who can afford to pay royalties to such companies as Cargill and W.R. Grace.