Vandana Shiva- A true environment Hero.

It is often a myth  that if a person is in the limelight then only he is doing something worth. But this is not the reason why people work for social cause. People work for a social cause when they really feel about it and workings are not restricted to just organising marches and all. Everyone has their own way of expressing their thoughts, so do Vandana Shiva. She is a well known environmental activist, Indian Scholar, food sovereignty advocate and author of 20 books. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalisation and a figure  of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalisation movement.
As a daughter of a forests conservator and a farmer, Vandana had that nature loving since childhood, growing up she had developed interests in agriculture and food. Vandana has spent most of her life in the defence and celebration of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. In 2003, she was given a title of  'Environment Hero' by Time magazine. Her work on agriculture started in 1984 after the violence in Punjab and the gas leak in Bhopal from Union Carbide's pesticide manufacturing plant. She is a person who has worked extensively to promote biodiversity in agriculture to increase productivity, nutrition, farmer's income. A true Environment Hero, she is who has proved that individually we can make a difference.