Our Roots
the foundation of our work and the people Guiding and driving our programs and advocacies
“How could it have ever occurred to anyone that living things other than humans are not social?”
~ Anna Tsing
Jessie Varquez
Jessie is a student of anthropology. This brought him to various engagements with Indigenous Peoples, farmers, and fishers, among other communities throughout the Philippines. Primarily a researcher in socio-cultural anthropology, he has worked on topics such as livelihoods, local food systems, indigenous knowledge, and climate change. He has a long-standing interest in food, especially those produced at the community level, and its entanglements on issues of knowledge, values, and power. He has also taught anthropology and social science courses at various universities in the Philippines. Currently, he is finishing his PhD in anthropology at the University of Manitoba exploring human-fish relations, after obtaining his BA and MA in anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He dreams of having his permaculture farm someday.
Philippines Address
Our local staff work remotely
from various parts of the Philippines (Benguet, Cebu).
To contact our Philippines team, fill up this contact form.
US Address
Located at
The Posner Center
for International Development
1031 33rd Street, Ste. 174
Denver, CO 80205
info@globalseedsavers.org
Our US offices are based in Denver, Colorado, which is the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho and 48 other Indigenous Tribes and Nations who call Colorado home. They are the original Stewards of this stolen land and it is because of their successes and continued hardships that we are able to engage in our collective work of restoring the indigenous practice of saving seeds.