Thirteen years ago today, on 8 August 2013, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, rural women, youth, scientists, environmental advocates, and local communities gathered in Camarines Sur to uproot the field trial of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice. More than an act of protest, the uprooting was a collective assertion that decisions capable of transforming agriculture, biodiversity, public […]
The Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development (MASIPAG), together with Good Food Community, Gulay Na, the Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP), and other food and farmers’ rights advocates, led a dialogue on trade, food security, and human rights at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), reiterating strong opposition to the expansion of intellectual property rights […]
Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), together with farmers’ organizations, environmental advocates, scientists, consumers, and faith-based groups, expresses grave concern over the ongoing review of Oriental Mindoro’s long-standing ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Recent consultations facilitated by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and […]
MASIPAG strongly and unequivocally challenges the approval of HIZ039 iron-zinc genetically modified rice, which was issued under a biosafety regulatory system already found by the Court of Appeals to be deficient in upholding constitutional environmental safeguards and the precautionary principle. The Court’s ruling on the Golden Rice and Bt eggplant cases established continuing judicial findings […]
Thirteen years ago today, on 8 August 2013, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, rural women, youth, scientists, environmental advocates, and local communities gathered in Camarines Sur to uproot the field trial of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice. More than an act of protest, the uprooting was a collective assertion that decisions capable of transforming agriculture, biodiversity, public […]
The Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development (MASIPAG), together with Good Food Community, Gulay Na, the Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP), and other food and farmers’ rights advocates, led a dialogue on trade, food security, and human rights at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), reiterating strong opposition to the expansion of intellectual property rights […]
Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), together with farmers’ organizations, environmental advocates, scientists, consumers, and faith-based groups, expresses grave concern over the ongoing review of Oriental Mindoro’s long-standing ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Recent consultations facilitated by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and […]
MASIPAG strongly and unequivocally challenges the approval of HIZ039 iron-zinc genetically modified rice, which was issued under a biosafety regulatory system already found by the Court of Appeals to be deficient in upholding constitutional environmental safeguards and the precautionary principle. The Court’s ruling on the Golden Rice and Bt eggplant cases established continuing judicial findings […]
