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and accountability mechanisms established. The full and active participation of all actors
concerned, including those most vulnerable to hunger, should be ensured;
•
Expedite the Right to Adequate Food Bill and allocate the necessary budgetary and human
resources for its effective implementation as a matter of priority;
•
Ensure that efforts are made to pass the National Land Use and Management Act, the Agrarian
Reform Extension Law and all other pending bills relating to the right to adequate food and
nutrition;
•
Ensure implementation of the agrarian reform programme under the Constitution of the
Philippines and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, especially its provision on the
right of rural women, as a matter of priority;
•
Establish a programme to mitigate hunger and increase household income, for example,
sustainable livelihood programmes for food producers such as smallholder agriculture and
fisheries in the country within the framework of sustainability;
•
Develop a clear programme on the development of smallholder agriculture and fisheries within
the framework of sustainability. This should be coupled with adequate and appropriate public
investment in support services for access to socialized credit, seeds, fertilizer, farm machinery
and infrastructure such as farm-to market roads and post-harvest and irrigation facilities. Access
to markets should be guaranteed;
•
Produce guidelines through the Department of Agriculture to delineate municipal waters to
protect the livelihoods of artisanal fisherfolk from commercial trawlers. The space occupied by
fish cages in mariculture parks should not exceed what is prescribed by law, and fish cages
exceeding the limit should be removed;
•
Ensure that adequate basic social services, including food and drinking water, are made
available to all indigenous peoples in the country to the maximum extent possible, as also
recommended by the previous Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples;
•
Ensure women's participation in the development of a food security plan that ensures support
for women having access to sustainable agriculture and community-based coastal resource
management, and implement laws on women such as the Magna Carta of Women Act, including
its section 20, on food security and productive resources;
•
Implement campaigns to raise awareness among women of their rights to land, particularly in
rural areas;
•
Continue to invest in essential services with the aim of eradicating stunting as part of the
national development plan, and consider establishing a specific unit within the national poverty
agency to monitor child nutrition, with particular emphasis on child stunting;
•
Ensure that the state budget reflects a commitment to children's rights by guaranteeing
equitable and adequate allocation of resources for the provision of essential services for
children, particularly in ensuring their right to healthy and nutritious food;
•
Ensure that national legislation is in line with the obligations of the Philippines according to the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and consider establishing a task force to
identify the main principles and standards of the Convention that have yet to be incorporated
into national legislation;
•
Implement legislative provisions to ensure that children with disabilities, particularly those
living in rural areas, have access to adequate food and nutrition;
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