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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From Peril to Power: How Agroecology Helps Women Farmers
“Now I get tired easily,” shares Ms. Hueang Namixay, a 36-year-old woman farmer from Laos, who suffered from pesticide poisoning. A lowland farmer, Hueang has been using the herbicide glyphosate in her four-hectare farm in Namhom Village in Kham District, Xiengkhuang Province, for 17 years to grow maize. She was aware of the perils of […]
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