···-- ~~~~~=··=--- --w ·=·=····=· ··-·-==---== -=·===· ==~==o=J=-·--- 5. Separate legislative agenda will be pursued to correspond to each human right. This is the trend in the legislature wherein there are several legislative bills that are being proposed to separately address the issues on the right to food, housing, education and health, among others. For example, land grabbing may be dealt with in a separate piece of legislation. Protection of the right to housing for peasants and other rural dwellers must certainly be included in amendments to the Magna Carta for Small Farmers. Suffice it to say however that there are policy efforts in the Philippines to impose legally binding obligations on juridical persons to respect human rights, albeit found in several laws. The challenge is to consolidate them. 6. There must be one comprehensive law to regulate agribusiness venture agreements (AVAs) that involve lands awarded to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) and those under different legal regimes, such as the public land patents or in ancestral lands. The terms and conditions of the AVAs must equitably benefit the farmers and rural workers. The law must provide that there is sharing of risks between investors and farmers-landowners. The allocation of risks to the contracting parties must be fair to insulate the farmers-landowners from financial hardships. A minimum lease rental should be set and the government should see to it that it is implemented. The primary objective of the AVA is to increase the income of the ARBs, but due to the very low lease rentals being given to their land, most are indebted to the investors to the point that ownership of the land is surrendered or collateralized. The term of the AVA shall not be more than ten years. If both parties decide to renew the contract, it shall be limited to another ten years. TWenty years is enough for the ARBs to learn the ropes of production and marketing, for them to become entrepreneurs and fully enjoy the benefits of their lands. 50