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Participatory Corn Breeding: A Farmer Field School Guide to Seed Conservation and Management is an instructional manual that integrates the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach into participatory corn breeding to strengthen and diversify community-based corn seed systems. By empowering smallholder farmers as active seed producers, breeders, and custodians of plant genetic resources, the manual promotes sustainable, agroecological farming systems while contributing to long-term

Kusina ni Tantsa is a recipe book that celebrates the rich culture, plant biodiversity, and lived experiences of farmers in Negros Occidental, Philippines. It features traditional dishes made from undervalued and climate-resilient crops that sustain local food systems and strengthen community nutrition.

The Facilitators’ Guide on Agroecology offers trainers and learning facilitators a set of participatory tools and learning exercises designed for adult learners. Together, these resources aim to strengthen the capacities of trainers and facilitators to effectively impart agroecological knowledge and skills in ways that are engaging, experiential, and rooted in farmers’ lived realities.

SEARICE investigates the Philippines Seed Law's effects on the seed-saving and farming practices of small farmers in Philippine provinces.

This publication presents the experiences of SEARICE's farmer-partners - their efforts, challenges, & rewards from practising agroecology.

SEARICE. Farmers’ seed system as the bedrock of food system transformation, 2022.

This publication shows that the Philippines' major laws on farmers' rights have failed to protect farmers' rights to seeds.