Agroecology X

Agroecology X is a unique community of organizations, associations, sustainable agriculture

practitioners, social entrepreneurs, organic food buffs, and many other believers and doers
of agroecology and advocates of food sovereignty.

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Calls regarding consumers’ right to food

1. Ensure unhampered transfer of produce from farms to markets. The

government should take immediate action to deliver food to affected
communities and ensure the availability of safe, sufficient, and accessible
food for all.

2. Ensure correct prices of farm produce favoring farmers and fisherfolks.

3. Stop the indiscriminate land and crop conversions. Agricultural lands

should be cultivated primarily for local food consumption and to strengthen
our food security.

4. Guarantee people’s participation in policy-making. Food producers and

consumers should be at the forefront in shaping our food systems.

5. Promote seed banking and sustainable food practices that avoid

wastage.

6. Implement genuine reforms aided by research and development in the

agrarian, fisheries, and forestry sectors. Relocalize our food systems and
empower local food producers through free land distribution. A genuine
agrarian reform program should be enacted as the primary means to safe,
accessible, adequate, and affordable food for all.

7. Remove agriculture and fisheries from World Trade Organization (WTO)

dictates. Liberate rural sectors from WTO prescriptions that work against
strengthening local industries.

8. Repeal anti-farmer and neoliberal or business-biased laws such as Rice

Liberalization Law.