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The Vandana Shiva Framework

Seed Sovereignty & Resistance to Agribusiness

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Vandana Shiva built movements by combining moral clarity with patient tactical execution. Vandana Shiva's organising logic — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The seed sovereignty & resistance to agribusiness framework distils Vandana Shiva's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Vandana Shiva made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Vandana Shiva's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Vandana Shiva's thinking.

Core Philosophy

The Earth's gifts—seeds, water, soil—are commons that belong to all life, not corporate property to be patented and controlled. True security comes from biodiversity and local knowledge, while monocultures create both ecological and economic vulnerability that serves only corporate profits.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"Who benefits when farmers cannot save seeds from their own harvest?"

4 more questions in Vandana Shiva's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Vandana Shiva Would NOT Do · sample
Partner with agribusiness corporations on "sustainable" initiatives that legitimize their core extractive model

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Vandana Shiva actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Vandana Shiva's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Vandana Shiva, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • vandana-shiva.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • vandana-shiva-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Vandana Shiva. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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