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.

Stop corporate control in food and agriculture!

Calls regarding plantations and industrial crops

1. Stop land grabbing and land use conversion. Support and recognize
collective cultivation and initiatives of peasants to attain food security and food
sovereignty.

2. Put an end to the excessive use of toxic chemicals in plantations.

Poisonous chemicals are detrimental to the health of agricultural workers and
communities near the plantation. Agroecology should instead be practiced
based on indigenous cultures and knowledge. Foreign agrochemical
corporations should be held accountable for the continuous marketing and
sale of dangerous chemicals despite the danger they pose to farmers.

3. Support agricultural workers. Increase wages of agricultural workers in

plantations. Implement the 750 pesos national minimum wage. Ensure the
provision of benefits and just wages for workers. Promote safe and humane
conditions of work and security of tenure. End contractualization.

4. Provide appropriate aid to workers during the pandemic. Monthly

financial aid of Php10,000 should be given to the toiling masses who are
experiencing extreme poverty, and those who lost their source of income or
are experiencing a reduction in their income amid the health crisis.

5. Reject Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Most GMOs are not

scientifically proven to be safe. Foreign agrocorporations patent seeds that
were once free and shared among communities and sell harmful chemicals
that poison farmers and their families. The monopoly of agrochemical
corporations, who are the leading proponents of GMOs, leads to the growing
cost of farming for the farmers resulting in deeper debt-bondage.

6. Implement genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization. Follow

the principle of land to the tillers and free land distribution. Haciendas and
foreign plantations should be dismantled and distributed equitably to peasants
who do not have their own land and those who do not have enough land.