Advocates of Science and Technology for the People

Food Security and Self-Sufficiency

Aloysius “Ochie” Baes, People's Scientist

Two years ago to this day, we went the National Kidney and Transplant Institute to visit Dr. Aloysius U. Baes who was confined at the hospital due to an illness. Little that we know that a few days later, Ochie would quietly pass away at the age of 58 on December 21, 2006. As a poet once said, it is not the manner of death that makes someone a hero, it is the meaning drawn from the struggles against the foe-- a hero serving the people to his very last breath.

Modernizing Philippine Agriculture

Rice production, our staple food and backbone of our food security, is in crisis. Within the backdrop of record breaking world food prices in 30 years, the current rice crisis also highlights the country’s long-term neglect of local agriculture.

Science for the People

Today marks the ninth anniversary of AGHAM or the Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Sambayanan.

World Foodless Day

October 16 is World Food Day but for many Filipino families, hunger has never been so common.
 

Genetically Modified Organisms

In the recent Gallup International Voice of the People survey, the Philippines ranked fifth with fourty percent of poor Filipinos going hungry in the last 12 months. One solution being suggested is to use genetically engineered (GE) crops to increase food production. The leading proponents are the leading agrochemical transnational corporations (TNC) that have reinvented themselves as “life sciences” companies.

Agham in Central Luzon

A month ago, September 22, the Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya Para sa Sambayanan chapter in Central Luzon (AGHAM CL) was finally launched at the FITS Center in Balanga City, Bataan.
 

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Who is Parochial and Selfish in the Issue of GMOs?

The debate on genetically engineered organisms in agriculture has reached a new peak with the recent flurry of statements and actions from both sides of the issue. The Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Sambayanan (AGHAM) being an organization of patriotic and progressive scientists is making this statement to put forward our position as scientists and clarify certain issues related to genetically engineered organisms and its social impacts.
 

ACTIVIST SCIENTISTS CONDEMN GOVERNMENT APPROVAL OF BT CORN COMMERCIAL RELEASE

While picketing the Department of Agriculture Monday morning, the activist scientists group AGHAM, or the Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Sambayanan, condemned the approval by the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) of the commercial release of Bt corn from Monsanto.
 

MANIFESTO OF FILIPINO SCIENTISTS TO SOLVE THE RICE CRISIS

The continuing rice crisis — reportedly the worst in the last three decades — is fast becoming the most urgent issue at hand.  The crisis, together with non-stop increases in the prices of petroleum products has placed the Filipino people in much trouble. Piecemeal subsidies doled out by the Arroyo government to poor families does not address the current crisis.  We believe that an end to the rice crisis requires a sincere solution that will truly benefit the Filipino people.