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
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
Andres Ignacio, PhD The uplands is home to many of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the Philippines, particularly in Luzon and Mindanao Islands whose ancestral domains were logged in an earlier era. In many areas, the IPs have moved to
Text and photos by Andres F. Ignacio, PhD One of the most striking features of Bukidnon that frequently impresses its visitors is its breathtaking mountain landscape — with some areas still covered with forest, though most are dominated by grasslands
The following text was presented by Ms. Sylvia Miclat, Executive Director of the Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC), as one of the speakers during the Laudato Si’ dialogue activity at Aloisiuskolleg organized by Ecojesuit as a COP23 Fiji-Bonn side event.
by PJ Capistrano, LUCID scholar I went to the Upper Pulangi district of northeastern Bukidnon to learn about corn farming, especially the ordinary tasks farmers have to tackle when growing corn, things that I had little-to-no knowledge about, as someone
Isabela province is the second largest province by area in the Philippines after Palawan and the largest province in Luzon Island at 1.24M ha. It is also the top corn producer in the country peaking its production in 2012 at
Last September 2017, LUCID project North Coordinator Stéphane Leyens and South Coordinator Andres Ignacio conducted a site reconnaissance visit to Iloilo Province, one of the three focus areas of the LUCID project where corn is a major crop. Iloilo is
by PJ Capistrano, LUCID scholar “The philosopher is always socially situated, and if the society is divided by oppressions, she either reinforces or struggles against them.” – Iris Marion Young To the person unfamiliar with philosophy, the inclusion of a
