Hello everyone! Today we will be launching the first of our ESSA sustainable stories, a series of interviews with people within the network who have been instrumental in helping to strengthen our advocacy of Sustainable Agriculture. First up we have…
A few weels ago, we released our article: Irrefutable Evidence Proves that Golden Rice is a Farce. In it, we highlighted that golden rice is not only inefficient at doing the very thing it was engineered to do (address vitamin…
Reported By Enrique Canizares The Antique Cluster with its Dihon Sa’ Raya initiative has been very aggressive in grounding the community’s vision. Last October 7, 2021 the group met with Dep-Ed superintendent to discuss the requirements and process to register…
ESSA continued it’s nationwide Initiative of conducting Inner Conditioning Workshops in Panay, thanks in part to the efforts and availability of facilitator and ESSA council member Elias Romualdez. The ICW is an intensive 3- day long that takes participants through…
This past July, Aeon Mapa of ESSA Secretariat conducted the Introduction to SA workshop to two groups of farmers, all members of the Central Iloilo Stakeholders for Sustainable Agriculture (CISSA). This geographic cluster is the most farmer-heavy in the entire…
By Aeon Mapa Just in case you haven’t heard, one of the most pressing issues in food production in the Philippines today is that of genetically engineered Golden Rice. Unfortunately the Philippines has become the first country to approve cultivation…
This last August 6 to 8, 2021, Elias Romualdez, the 19-year-old ESSA Youth Sector council member, conducted a 3-day Inner Conditioning Workshop at Tuburan Institute, Mintal, Davao City. This workshop had 11 participants with diverse background, age, and culture in…
This past May 7-9 and June 18-20 at CBE, Bulacan, ESSA President Nick Perlas conducted the ICW 2.0: From Fear To Hope. This workshop builds on the inner development process that started in the ICW 1.0, and contextualizes it in…
Last April 16, the members of Iloilo city cluster visited Brgy. Cochero to conduct the final module of it’s urban food security project. Kaon Ta? Tanom Ta! Began a little more than six months ago with 12 participant households. Their…
For the past 6 months, the Iloilo City Cluster has been working on it’s urban gardening project called Kaon ka? Tanom Ta! at Baranggay Cochero. They have made a short video to share with you the progress and results of…
On the morning of December 19th, the members of Iloilo city cluster fetched the participants of the Kaon Ka, Tanom Ta project from Brgy Cochero, and they went to visit Brgy. Salacay. Located in the nearby town of Cabatuan, Pototan,…
Last October 10, 2020 the cluster of Iloilo City, composed mostly of dedicated and determined women, dedicated to Sustainable Agriculture continued on their weekly activities at Barangay Cochero, Iloilo City. This week’s topic was about Seed Banking and Seed Libraries. Seeing how…