Agroecology Stories

Agroecological practices bring new life to Coastal Family

At 31, Tapos Kumar Mondal has already spent more than two decades in farming. A resident of Burigoalini Union’s Abad Chandipur village, he lives with his nine-member family and has transformed their small homestead into an integrated farm producing vegetables, livestock, fish, and vermicompost. Tapos grew up helping his father irrigate fields and plant seedlings. […]
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Innovations of Dispossession

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action The need for social transformation to address the multiple crises in our food system has been weaponized against the people by using a very narrow and harmful framing of the kind of innovation that is needed to meet the scale of the challenges.  A monoculture of meaning was […]
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Engaging Consumers in Agroecology: Lessons from Field Learning Sites

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action Consumers are traditionally conceived as being  at the end of a linear value chain that is the backbone of the industrial agri-food system. There their proverbial power lies. They engage with the food system using their wallets,  but  are  otherwise unable to participate in issues outside what’s considered […]
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GMOs: Paying Lip Service to Serving Lives

by Mabi David, PANAP Agroecology in Action The most favored and well-known rhetoric justifying novel biotechnology’s use in food among its enthusiasts and defenders is its supposed potential to save human lives. Immediately conferred upon every genetically engineered product designed to address challenges in food and agriculture is the virtuous halo of a humanitarian agenda.  […]
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PATIKIM Festival: A Taste of Freedom through Agroecology

It was a hot and humid morning inside Bgy. Magsaysay’s basketball court where the farmers’ festival would take place. While the province of Quezon, much like the rest of the Philippines, was already at the tailend of an especially ferocious summer marked by record-breaking heat, that day there was hardly any cool breeze to provide […]
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