Despite food production capable of feeding the global populace many times over, 928 million people all over the world, mostly women and children, remain undernourished and food insecure. This is the backdrop of this year’s World Food Day. Held every October 16, this collective activity is led by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization […]
COLLECTIVE RESPONSES AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY BUILDING OF THE MASIPAG SMALL FARMERS’ ORGANIZATIONS Maria Corazon Jimenez-Tan The COVID-19 pandemic caused a health, food, and socio-economic crisis that impacted most especially the poor sectors in the urban and rural communities. It revealed the deep-seated problems in the public health system and the agriculture and food system, and […]
By MASIPAG Farmer-scientist group Magsasaka at Siyentpiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) participated at the 2021 Organic World Congress (OWC) last September 8-10 in Rennes France along with more than 2,000 organic stakeholders around the globe. MASIPAG Farmer leaders and staff proudly shared the network’s collective experience at the forefront of the country’s organic […]
After more than 12 years of producing muscovado sugar using the traditional production and processing technology, the Kalibutan Society Inc. (KSI) and the small farmer-sugarcane producers in southern Negros Occidental will soon have a new muscovado mill plant with the latest production equipment and facilities. This was realized after 5 years of planning and preparation […]
Sama-samang tutulan ang Golden Rice! Noong ika-21 ng Hulyo 2021, inaprubahan ng Kagawaran ng Agrikultura ng Pilipinas ang permiso para sa komersyal na pagpapalaganap ng Golden Rice sa bansa. Ang Golden Rice ay isang GMO (genetically modified) na dilaw na bigas na tinututulan ng mga magsasaka, kasama ang iba’t ibang sektor ng lipunan. Basahin ang […]
By MASIPAG Farmer-scientist group Magsasaka at Siyentpiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) participated at the 2021 Organic World Congress (OWC) last September 8-10 in Rennes France along with more than 2,000 organic stakeholders around the globe. MASIPAG Farmer leaders and staff proudly shared the network’s collective experience at the forefront of the country’s organic […]
After more than 12 years of producing muscovado sugar using the traditional production and processing technology, the Kalibutan Society Inc. (KSI) and the small farmer-sugarcane producers in southern Negros Occidental will soon have a new muscovado mill plant with the latest production equipment and facilities. This was realized after 5 years of planning and preparation […]
Farmer-scientist organization Magsasaka at Siyentipiko Para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) vehemently condemns the railroaded decision by the Department of Agriculture to commercially propagate Golden Rice and calls on small farmers and consumers across the country to mount protest against the said decision. Not less than a year from the 60-day public comment period launched […]
