(3) The Autonomous Regional Government shall undertake appropriate measures to protect the ancestral domain and ancestral lands of the indigenous cultural communities; (4) The Autonomous Regional Government shall respect the rights of small landowners and shall provide incentives for voluntary offered lands for sale/distribution in accordance with the provisions of law on just compensation; (5) The Autonomous Regional Government shall be guided by the principle that it is its concern and responsibility to lift the economic and social status of the landless farmers and farm workers. Likewise, it shall also be guided by the principle that land has a social function and landownership has corresponding social obligations and responsibilities. Landowners are encouraged not to leave their lands idle and abandoned but instead make them available for productive purposes to benefit not only themselves but others who are landless, thereby helping the less fortunate segments of society to become self-reliant and self-sufficient in life; (6) The Autonomous Regional Government shall apply the principle on collective ownership and/or stewardship, whenever applicable, in accordance with law in the disposition and utilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agricultural production, subject to the prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers and the ancestral rights of the indigenous cultural communities; (7) The Autonomous Regional Government shall recognize the rights of farmers, farmworkers, landowners, cooperatives and other independent farmers‟ organizations, to participate in the planning, organization and management of the programs. It shall provide support to agriculture through the provision of appropriate and adaptable technology transfer as a result of intensive research and adequate financial assistance for production, marketing and other support services; (8) The Autonomous Regional Government shall protect the rights of subsistence fishermen found in the local communities in their preferential use of communal marine and fishing resources, both inland and offshore. It shall provide support to such fishermen through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial assistance for production and marketing and other basic services necessary for their development; (9) The Autonomous Regional Government shall protect, develop and conserve such resources for continuous utilization by its people and shall also protect offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against intrusions. Fishworkers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization of marine and fishing resources; and (10) The Autonomous Regional Government shall provide incentives to landowners affected by the program to invest the proceeds of their landholdings to promote and accelerate industrialization, employment and privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment of land shall contain features that shall enhance negotiability and acceptability in the market place. The autonomous 47

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