The Vandana Shiva
Framework
Seed Sovereignty & Resistance to Agribusiness
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.
A glimpse of Vandana Shiva's thinking.
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.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"Who benefits when farmers cannot save seeds from their own harvest?"
4 more questions in Vandana Shiva's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
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.
- ✦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
- →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
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Don't sign it as offered. The question isn't whether the client is large or difficult. It's who ends up holding the power once you say yes. A client that supplies a big share of your revenue becomes the one who decides your hiring, your pricing, your roadmap, and eventually your values. That is dependency, and founders often mistake it for growth. Every farmer who bought the annual seed package learned this: the first season feels like abundance, and by the third you no longer own your own capacity to farm.
Look at what a "difficult" client does in practice. Usually it demands custom work that fits only their needs, slow payment, and scope that keeps expanding. Each of those pulls your team away from the things that make your business sturdy: several customers, reusable methods, knowledge that belongs to you. Large contracts also tend to claim ownership of what you build for them. Read the intellectual property and exclusivity clauses before anything else, because that is where a client quietly enclosed what you thought was yours.
My position: take the work only on terms that keep you sovereign. Cap this client at roughly a quarter of revenue, retain ownership of your core methods, require deposits and short payment cycles, and write in a clean exit.
Your next move this week: send them a counterproposal with those four terms. How they respond to being asked for fairness will tell you everything about what year two would look like.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
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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.