As part of Good Food Community’s Food Justice Now! campaign, Mabi and Tey spoke about food sovereignty at the recent Development Economics Conference of Ateneo (DECA) 2026. Hosted by the Ateneo Economics Association (AEA), DECA 2026 is a four-day academic program that aims to encourage high school students to engage in socio-economic discourse on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Philippines, being a tropical country, has a rich biodiversity. The country’s richness in flora and fauna is also reflected in the diversity of our vegetables at the species and varietal levels. However, relentless promotion of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by Agri-Transnational Corporations (Agri-TNCs) and facilitated by the government puts at risk these rich biodiversity […]
The video provides a critical analysis of the International Rice Research Institute’s existence and its impacts through its programs and traitorous collaborations with corporations and governments have all led us to say that it has failed to address hunger and poverty in the Philippines and other countries; committed crimes and violations of peoples’, especially farmers’, […]
