16 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;

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