What's For Dinner?

Amber Heckelman is documenting climate resilience of rice varieties developed by Philippine rice farmers and scientists to reverse negative results of Green Revolution practices. After Green Revolution seeds, fertilizers and pesticides left Philippine subsistence rice farmers a narrower, inadequate resource base to survive, farmers learned to re-hybridize, test and plant native rice varieties. They re-attained food security, and the collaboration grew to include 563 member organizations, 38 NGO and 15 scientist partners. Their rice varieties display superior drought, salt and pest-resistance. Amber is documenting these results as PhD work in environmental studies in collaboration with MASIPAG, which means "industrious" in Tagalog - Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development.