Join us for a special screening of The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021), a powerful documentary that traces the life and work of world-renowned environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Through interviews, archival footage, and on-the-ground storytelling, the film explores Shiva’s lifelong fight against industrial agriculture, GMO monopolies, and the corporate control of food systems. It celebrates her vision of regenerative farming, Indigenous knowledge, and ecological stewardship, revealing how one woman’s fierce advocacy sparked global movements for biodiversity and food justice.

Following the film, we will host a panel discussion on seed banks and seed libraries, the politics of food systems, and the importance of seed sovereignty in a warming world. With Ruchi Shroff from Navdanya, Randa Toko from Gaia Foundation, and Helene Schulze from London Freedom Seed Bank, we will explore how community seed-saving practices challenge extractive agricultural models, why access to seeds is a political issue, and what it means to protect the genetic diversity that sustains life.

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About the speakers

Ruchi Shroff is the Director of Navdanya Trust, an organisation founded by Vandana Shiva to protect seed sovereignty, biodiversity, and farmers’ rights. She has worked with Navdanya for over two decades, focusing on community seed banks, agroecology, and regenerative livelihoods. Her work bridges grassroots organising, policy advocacy, and international networks committed to food justice, ecological sustainability, and climate resilience.

Randa Toko is an artist and land worker whose practice sits at the confluence of agroecology, social arts and alternative pedagogy. They are passionate about practices that interrupt notions of individualism and separation from nature to grow towards symbiotic and collaborative futures.  Randa is currently the southern coordinator for the Seed Sovereignty Programme at the Gaia Foundation where she stewards alongside farmers a movement sowing seed diversity and resilience in seed system in the UK. In her creative and organisational work, she engages with land stewardship, biocultural relations, and food sovereignty as interconnected practices for cultivating resilient and delicious futures.

Helene Schulze is a researcher, writer and plant person interested in multispecies kinship, grassroots biocultural conservation and, in particular, seeds. She is completing a PhD in urban seed ecologies, colonial botany and border politics and helps steward the London Freedom Seed Bank and Garden of Earthly Delights, Hackney.