MASIPAG is a network of farmers, scientists and NGOs seeking to improve the farmers’ quality of life through sustainable agriculture.
Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines
Joined November 2018
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All You Need To Know About the Court Ruling of GM Golden Rice and Bt Eggplant
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#StopGoldenRice
#AgroecologyNow
#FoodSovNow
📷 PUBLIC INVITATION
Developed Resistance or Deregulated Risk?
A People’s Review of Department Circular No. 9, Series of 2025
📷 When: August 14, 2025
📷 Time: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
📷 Where: Via Zoom
📷 Register here: tiny.cc/DC9review
Under this policy, genetically contaminated seeds can now be registered with the National Seed Industry Council and included in public procurement and seed subsidy programs without undergoing biosafety review.
Join farmers, agroecology advocates, legal and scientific experts, and grassroots movements in understanding what DC9 means for the future of our seeds, our food, and our rights.
Register here: tiny.cc/DC9review
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This case study utilizing Participatory Action Research by @MASIPAGFarmers, a farmer led organization in the Philippines, shared by our partners at the @FAO #Agroecology Knowledge Hub is a must read! fao.org/agroecology/database…
#genderequity #Farmerseedsystems #foodsovereignty
Today marks the 6th year of RTL, MASIPAG joins everyone in demanding its immediate repeal. The worsening rice crisis proves that the law has only benefited importers at the expense of farmers and the Filipino people.
Read our full statement:
masipag.org/junk-rice-libera…
Defend Biodiversity, Expose Corporate Greed: Solidarity with @BioThaiweb Against CPF’s Environmental Crimes!
MASIPAG statement of Solidarity with BIOTHAI and farmers and fishers of Thailand amid the introduced Blackchin Tilapia Outbreak
Know the facts here:
#FoodSovNow
MASIPAG calls on governments, CSOs, and individuals to support BIOTHAI and the affected communities in their fight against CPF’s environmental crimes.
Read our full statement here: masipag.org/defend-biodivers…
MASIPAG strongly condemns the unjust arrest of PDG staff members on baseless terrorism charges. This is a direct attack on those fighting for farmers’ rights, food sovereignty, and environmental justice.
Read our full statement here: masipag.org/masipag-denounce…
In this year's Organic World Congress, MASIPAG farmers represented the network and shared at the global platform the struggles, initiatives, lived experiences, and achievements of Filipino small-scale farmers in forwarding agroecology and farmers’ rights.
masipag.org/masipag-at-the-o…
We must reject this system and embrace farmer-led agroecology—a people-centered and farmed-led approach to agriculture rooted in sustainable practices, biodiversity, and social justice.
Read our full statement here: masipag.org/rise-against-tox…
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💭 Feel free tumambay at magmuni-muni! We will be bringing our small zine baul on community care, plant-based recipes and comics documenting the struggle of our food producers from the Philipines and Southeast Asia.
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The assault on people’s #seeds is intensifying, driven by efforts to regulate, standardise and privatise seeds to expand corporate markets. On this day of action against #UPOV 2 December, read further how communities worldwide are standing strong in resistance. grain.org/e/7214 #StopUPOV #DefendOurSeeds
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“Our rights and aspiration for #seeds and #foodsovereignty is not just about protecting the rights of us farmers-it is also the future of our food systems. We say no to #UPOV and to the patenting of our seeds - our life!” Tatay Larry, @MASIPAGFarmers
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