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Law, the Fisheries Code, the Labor Code, the Migrant Workers Act, the Solo
Parents Welfare Act and the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act.
SEC. 16. Food Security and Productive Resources. – The State
recognizes the contribution of women to food production and shall therefore
ensure sustainability and sufficiency of its activities in the household and
community levels. To address this, the State shall ensure:
(a) Right to Food. The State shall guarantee the availability of food in
quantity and quality sufficient to satisfy the dietary needs of
individuals and the physical and economic accessibility for
everyone to adequate food that is culturally acceptable and free
from unsafe substances and culturally accepted;
(b) Right to Resources for Food Production. The State shall promote
the right to adequate food by proactively engaging in activities
intended to strengthen access to and utilization of resources and
means to ensure women’s livelihood, including food security:
(1) Equal status shall be given to men and women, whether married or
not, in the titling of the land and issuance of stewardship contracts
and patents;
(2) Equal treatment shall be given to men and women beneficiaries of
the agrarian reform program, wherein vested right of a woman
agrarian reform beneficiary is defined by the woman’s relationship
to the tillage, i.e. her direct and indirect contribution to the
development of the land;
(3) Customary rights of women to the land, including access to and
control of the fruits and benefits, shall be recognized in
circumstances where private ownership is not possible such as
ancestral domain claims;
(4) Information and assistance on claiming rights to the land shall be
made available to women at all times;