How Much Has People Empowerment Progressed among Small Farmers and Fisherfolk? State of People's Organizations in the Philippines

Danilo A. Songco

No DP 2022-07, Discussion Papers from Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Abstract: This paper attempts to quantify government's performance in empowering small farmers and fishers following the provisions of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) or Republic Act 8435. It establishes four dimensions of empowerment that may be used to measure empowerment and presents evidence of how government has performed under each of these dimensions. It concludes that government has been on track in following AFMA’s prescriptions for small farmers and fisherfolk empowerment. However, its efforts are coming too little, too late, although there are strong indications that such effort can be upscaled and can still achieve the empowerment objectives of AFMA if the government can undertake certain short-term and long-term policy measures. Comments to this paper are welcome within 60 days from the date of posting. Email publications@pids.gov.ph.

Keywords: economic well-being; empowerment of small farmers and fishers; access to public resources; organizing capability; voice in policymaking; F2C2 program; management capability of agri coops; interagency collaboration; SFF empowerment; commercialization of small farms; agricultural cooperatives law; developing the youth in agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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