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Farmers, Scientists, Chefs and Advocates Bring Fight Against UPOV to CHR Forum, Affirms Seed Sovereignty as a Human Right

July 2, 2026

by MASIPAG National Office

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 […]

Keep Oriental Mindoro GMO-Free: The Triple Planetary Crisis Calls for Farmer-Led Agroecology, Not Corporate-Controlled GM Technologies

June 26, 2026

by MASIPAG National Office

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 […]

PRESS RELEASE | MASIPAG Challenges Approval of HIZ039 GM Rice and Calls for Suspension Amid Judicial and Public Concerns

June 10, 2026

by MASIPAG National Office

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 […]

𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘁, 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁?

March 28, 2026

by MASIPAG National Office

Decades of warnings, innovations, and proven alternatives have been ignored long enough; Filipino farmers and scientists have already shown the way out of fossil fuel-dependent agriculture yet the government still lags behind. As early as 1966, Filipino scientists were already advancing alternatives to fossil fuel dependent agriculture. Long before “sustainability” became a global buzzword, they […]