FarmLab Ekopraxis Pilipinas

FarmLab Ekopraxis Pilipinas is an emerging network of grassroots collectives led by frontline youth working in food justice, land rights, conservation, ecosystem restoration and climate justice.

Founded in 2021, it started as a small initiative co-creating local food systems with communities through food forests, communal farms and gardens. Today, it working to facilitate grassroots action and define the national policy agenda on food, land and climate in the Philippines. Its work is a direct response to the ongoing shift to authoritarian, corrupt, and neoliberal leadership in the Philippines as well as the constant erosion of cultural and environmental knowledge in rural areas due to globalisation and the corporate capture of food systems.

FarmLab Ekopraxis currently works with twelve model sites, including farms and community gardens, across twelve communities and a range of contexts both urban and rural. These are being utilized by communities, NGOs, local government units and private organisations that have flourished as autonomous sites. It is also working on a community of practice of natural farms, community organisations, advocates and farmer-scientists that has over 250 collaborators that span across the Philippine archipelago.

The organisation aims to create a regenerative farming and agroecology toolkit, and facilitate the creation of regional assemblies, aimed at enhancing circular, just, and relocalized food systems through creative campaigns and field schools in the Philippines.