PAKISAMA is a 34 year- old national confederation of currently 75 family farmer organizations, with 74,000 member family farmers in 36 provinces.
An ASEAN Rural Leadership Awardee (2015) and a 2015 global ILC award finalist, PAKISAMA has successfully pushed for legislations related to agrarian reform and sustainable agriculture.
Inspired by the 2014 UN Declaration of International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), it helped organize the annual multi-stakeholder national conference (KLMPE), the agriculture and rural development knowledge and policy platform (ARDKPP), and the Philippine Family Farmers Agri-Fishery-Forestry Cooperatives Federation (AgriCOOPh).
Responding to COVID19 pandemic, it has started a farmers’ market linking an all-women cooperative of an indigenous community (K-Gat) to end consumers.
PAKISAMA since the 1980s has been promoting and building members’ capacity on integrated, diversified, organic farming system (IDOFS).
Included among PAKISAMA members is the number one organic rice producer in the country and a leader in mangrove reforestation and coastal resource management.
PAKISAMA has a budget of 389,849 USD for 2020, sourced from eight grant projects, 70% of which comes from two EU-supported projects focused on building the capacity of 30 member agri-cooperatives to provide full value chain services to individual family farmers including agro-biodiversity extension services while engaging government in policy dialogues.
