~~~=-=--==-----=~"~======== -·= ·=·==~~ ~ =- ~=-~-~-"~·-~~-·~ • Production land use, pertaining to the direct and indirect utilization of land to general outputs resulting from the following activities, but not limited to: agricultural, fish, farming or aquaculture, timber production, agro-forestry, grazing and pasture, mining, indigenous energy resource development, industry and tourism; • Settlements development is about improvement on existing formal and informal residential or housing settlements or any proposed development of certain areas for residential or mass housing purposes. It also involves the spatial distribution of population, identification of the roles and functions of key urban centers, determination of relationships among settlement areas, and the provision of basic services and facilities of identified major residential or housing settlement areas or growth centers. It is also concerned with the interrelationship of settlements as they develop and establish functional linkages based on their respective resource endowments and comparative advantages; • Infrastructure development refers to the availability of supply of basic services and fostering of economic and other forms of integration necessary for producing or obtaining the material requirements of Filipinos, in an efficient, responsive, safe and ecologically friendly built environment. It covers sub-sectors of transportation, communications, water resources, and social infrastructure The NALU Bill also seeks to establish by way of law a Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Development (NPAAAD). It declares that agricultural areas covered under the CARP are priority areas for agricultural development, which areas are generally deemed nonnegotiable for conversion, especially if they are irrigated and irrigable lands, lands developed or possessing the potential for development of high value crops, and agricultural lands that are ecologically fragile and whose conversion will result in serious environmental problems. In reality, land conversion adversely affects the occupants, such ·as farmers, who are sought to be displaced. Provisions about just and humane eviction and demolition are stated in the NALU Bill, which requires mandatory public hearings and consultations. It would seem that eviction and demolition are not prohibited. Rather, the policy efforts are geared towards merely regulating eviction and demolition. On the other hand, the Zero Hunger Bill83 would seek to end hunger in the country in ten years, on the premise that hunger is inconsistent with human dignity and human rights. To measure the compliance, the Bill sets target indicators such as: • • • • • • • • • • percentage of development of ancestral lands; percentage of rural population with access to productive resources; share of budget spent on programmes aiming at creating access to productive resources; percentage of budget spent on agri-research, agri-extension, irrigation, training, technology, credits and rural development; percentage of rural female-headed households, or rural women, with legal title to agriculture land; percentage of public budget allocation for social transfer programmes to those unable to feed themselves; coverage of marginalized and disadvantaged population taking part in social transfer programmes; percentage of marginalized and disadvantaged population covered by a public nutrition supplement programme; percentage of population aware of available food and nutrition programmes; and coverage of school feeding programmes. The Bill would also establish the Commission on the Right to Adequate Food as an attached agency under the Commission on Human Rights. In addition, the Bill intends to serve as the legal basis for the justiciability of the right to food, such that any public officer or employee who directly or indirectly obstructs, defeats, violates or in any manner impedes or impairs any of a person's rights 83 Text ofthe bill is found via https://www.senate.gov.phllisdata/187731590l!.pdf (accessed Oct. 28, 2016) 40