Winds of Change, a 16-minute video documentary produced by the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC), shares the stories of smallholder women and men farmers in Bukidnon in northern Mindanao, Philippines and their experiences in the corn industry that supplies
The Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities-Ateneo de Manila University and ESSC offer the third and final lecture of the LUCID project lecture series with the topic An exploration of structural injustice through the system of smallholder corn
The Department of Economics of the School of Social Sciences-Ateneo de Manila University and ESSC offer the second lecture in a series of three with the topic GM corn production in the Philippine uplands: A tale of two varieties to
The School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, and ESSC are offering the first lecture in a three-part series on the LUCID Project, a collaborative interdisciplinary research project, and features the research of scholars and development practitioners from the Philippines
The Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) is organizing an online conference on Food, Forests, and Farmers: Finding sustainable pathways for the future on 22 to 24 November 2021 that brings together the university partners and other collaborators
Pamela Joy (PJ) Mariano Capistrano, ESSC-LUCID project PhD researcher, presented her paper Agency and Responsibility: Conceptualizing Responsibility for Structural Injustice in Capability and Development Applicationsat the annual international conference of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) held online and
By Pamela Joy (PJ) Mariano Capistrano Despite the high financial costs and economic risks to small farmers in the Upper Pulangi area in northern Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines, a majority of farmers still farm high-yield variety corn. There must be other
J. Andres F. Ignacio, Ph.D. Upland degradation has been a growing concern in the Philippines in the wake of extensive logging and clearing in the 1970s–1980s. As forests vital to the water supplies of burgeoning communities were depleted, the chances
In a Brown-bag Workshop Series at the Department of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University on 19 February 2020, Clarice Colleen Manuel, a PhD candidate at the Université de Namur in Belgium, presented her ongoing study on “GMO corn Adoption in
“When nature is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, this has serious consequences for society. This vision of “might is right” has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources
