Vandana Shiva It is almost a given that the industrialized countries - the North - are the epitome of progress and wisdom. The South - the Third World - is a place of backwardness and ignorance - but it does have lots of resources. The North wants to use those resources to continue to enrich itself. Today parts of the South are redefining and challenging conventional notions of growth and development. There is resistance to the destructive effects of transnational corporations and global capitalism and a new awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge and centuries-old diverse agriculture. (audio cassette - 60 minutes - 1994) Vandana Shiva of India is an internationally-renowned activist. She is the director of the Research Foundation for Science - Technology and Ecology in New Delhi. She is has pioneered research on biodiversity and indigenous ethnoscience. Dr Shiva is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award - also known as the alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of Biopiracy - Stolen Harvest and Water Wars.