International Workshop on Institutional Food Purchase Programs in the

Philippines

November 22-24th 2015, Manila, Philippines

Organized by AFA and Pakisama

With the support of Wallonia, the Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires and the Purchase from Africans

for Africa program

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Table of content

1. Background / Rationale .................................................................................................... 3

2. Field Visit and Regional Workshop on Institutional Food Purchase .................................... 3 Program ............................................................................................................................. 4 Participants ...................................................................................................................... 10

3. The following annexes provide more information on ...................................................... 11 ANNEX A .......................................................................................................................... 12 ANNEX B .......................................................................................................................... 13 ANNEX C .......................................................................................................................... 15 ANNEX D .......................................................................................................................... 16 ANNEX E .......................................................................................................................... 18 ANNEX F........................................................................................................................... 19

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1. Background / Rationale

Since 2010, the Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), or National Confederation

of Small Farmers’ and Fishers’ Organizations, has been involved in building the capacities of agri-based enterprises of their member farmers organizations (FOs). Three key achievements can be noted. First, PAKISAMA now has farmer-owned agri-business cooperative models that provide the full range of production-processing-marketing value-chain intervention. Second, PAKISAMA has contributed towards creating a better enabling environment for agri-based social enterprises of FOs. Third, PAKISAMA members have a sustained presence in key spaces of national and local governance bodies for agri-based enterprises.

The project on Developing Institutional Purchase for Agri-based Social Enterprises in the Philippines,

with support from the Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires (CSA) since 2014, is focused on building capacity of rice-based enterprises of PAKISAMA members to engage in the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP), a pilot program of govenment that promotes institutional food purchase. The project aims to enlarge market access of farmers’ organic rice products and thus help increase farmers’ incomes. Institutional purchase programs such as those provided in Brazil’s Zero Fome model (e.g., Food Acquisition program/PAA and the National School Feeding program/PNAE) will allow farmers to sell their products to government at fair prices. Inside the Zero Hunger program, different forms of assistance are also made available for family farmers to help them get better access to those market, such as rural credit programs, insurance schemes, and technical assistance which stimulated local food production and increased local food output.

Meanwhile, PAKISAMA participates in a regional project of the Asian Farmers Association (AFA) and with

the support of CSA entitled Expanding involvement of Farmers’ Organizations in Public Programs Generating Employment and Promoting Sustainable Agriculture. PAKISAMA is conducting the pilot test in three provinces in Luzon on engaging FOs with the government current program on institutional purchase. Their experiences are being documented to see the FOs’ involvement in the program, their issues and challenges faced and lessons learnt in engaging the government on food purchase program.

These project experiences have given PAKISAMA more confidence in leading policy dialogues and

knowledge-learning sessions not only in asset reform issues but also in agri-business enterprise development.

2. Field Visit and Regional Workshop on Institutional Food Purchase

The Field Visit and Regional Workshop on Institutional Food Purchase is proposed to be organized on

November 23-24 to complement the KLM-PE 2015 and provide synergies in knowledge and learnings on institutional food purchase among participating FOs, CSOs and government agencies.

A. The Field Visit on Institutional Food Purchase (November 22-23) shall be conducted in one of the PAHP

pilot areas in Camarines Sur in Bicol region to enable sharing of experiences of the small farmer producers in their engagement and participation in the PAHP program. PAKISAMA FOs engaged in the CSA-supported pilot project, as well as agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) involved in the PAHP pilot will be invited to share their experiences.

(i) The field visit will look at the “supply side” of the program through visits with smallholder farmers’

farm and discussions with farmers’ organizations;

(ii) Discussion will also focus on components of family farms that supply the feeding program: technical extension, business management, marketing, and what had been the results in terms of farmers’ income;

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(iii) The problems and bottlenecks that FOs encountered will be surfaced, as well as their

recommendations to improve the institutional food purchase program. B. The Regional Workshop on Institutional Food Purchase (November 24) shall be a regional learning session

that will distill and share the lessons learned to date of FOs’ engagement in institutional food purchase in the Philippines (by PAKISAMA members and ARBOs) but also in Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia. Generally, the objective is to present and learn from existing initiatives and government policy framework on institutional purchase at the country, sub/regional and international level. Specifically, the objectives are:

(i) To share and learn from experiences and initiatives as well as lessons and build on good practice of FOs involvement in institutional food purchase program;

(ii) To learn and understand existing government institutional food purchase programs and policies as well as analyze mechanisms on how FOs can effectively engage in the government food purchase program (e.g. Brazil experience);

(iii) To learn and understand the institutional set up to make instiututional food purchase more effective and responsive to key stakeholders;

(iv) To share good experiences of Government actions on legislation; and

(v) To identify challenges, opportunities and action points on improving farmers’ engagement in government food purchase programs.

Program

Date / Time

Activity / Topic

Person In-charge

Expected Result / Objective

Day 0 Nov 21, 2015 Saturday

Arrival to Manila for Regional / International Participants, Guests and Resource Persons

Vicky Serrato, AFA in coordination with the administrative staff of PAKISAMA

All the participants will come because it is important that they had arrived the day before the field visit the next day.

Day 1 Nov 22, 2015 Sunday

FIELD VISIT TO A PILOT SITE OF PAHP

(INSTITUTIONAL PURCHASE PROGRAM)

7:00 – 11:00 AM Travel time from Manila to Camarines Sur for the Field Visit

Vicky Serrato, AFA in coordination with the administrative staff of PAKISAMA

All the regional and international visitors will participate in the field visit.

11:00 AM-3:00 PM

Field Visit to the Pilot Site of a Local Government Initiatives on Public Food Procurement Program (Ocampo, Camarines Sur)

Welcome program

Introduction of Participants and Visitors

Lunch

Sharing of experiences on Institutional Purchase Program

Open Forum (Question and Answer Activity

Closing Activity

Tony Santos,

PAKISAMA AMT in coordination with the Ocampo Group and PADCI

-Ocampo Group and

PADCI -LGU representative (if

available) -PAHP representative

(DAR-DSWD) Tony Santos and the

Visitors Tess Panis,

PAKISAMA Provincial Coordinator

During the field visit the following will be accomplished:

The farmers’ group/organization will share actual experiences, learning and insights in the implementation of the Institutional Purchase Program (IPP);

Family farming in the Philippines which is the source of food for feeding program will be discussed which are either managed by clusters or by a cooperative / association;

Challenges, problems and bottlenecks encountered will be determined as well as recommendations to improve the IPP.

3:00 – 5:00 PM Visit to PAKISAMA member-organization with capacity to engage in Institutional Food Purchase Program

Orientation on Pecuaria Development

Tony Santos and Tess Panis

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Cooperative (PDCI)

Exposure to the PDCI’s products

Open Forum between PDCI and the visitors

PDCI’s officers and management staff

5:00 – 5:30 PM Travel time to the Hotel where the Forum will be held the next day

Day 2 Nov 23, 2015 Monday

Forum with PAHP-Bicol Agencies

8:00- 8:30 8:30 – 8:45

Registration Opening Program Welcome Remarks Introduction on the Forum

PAKISAMA secretariat Bicol Group Tony Santos

8:45 -10:00 (5-10 minutes

each presenter 10:00 -10:15 10:15 – 10:45 10:45 – 11:00 11:00 – 11:15

Sharing of Experiences: Opportunities, Successes and Challenges, Lessons and Action Points in Engaging Government on Food Purchase Program by the Bicol Program Officers and Representatives from International / Regional Delegation Break

Open Forum

Summary and Synthesis of the Forum Closing Program

From Bicol Delegation: -Office of Hon. Leni

Robredo, 2nd

District of

Camarines Sur

-PAHP Program

(DAR-DA- DSWD tie-up)

-PADCI-PAKISAMA &

Ocampo farmers’ cluster /

organizaton

From International Delegation:

Luana Swensson (FAO); Israel Klug, FAO PAA Coordinator; Celso Ludwig (Fetraf Brazil; Marek Poznanski and Caroline Amrom (CSA); AFA delegates from Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam

Tony Santos,

Facilitator Soc Banzuela

The following will be accomplished during the forum:

Generate conceptual and key field implementation Issues of the PAHP Pilot in Bicol

Contribute to the further development of Bicol pilot project including broadening the participation of functional agri-cooperatives like PDCI and PADC;

Inspire representatives of farmers organizations (FOs) and other participants including government agencies in Bicol on the results of Brazil's experience on institutional purchase

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Tess Panis

!:00 – 3:00 Travel Time Back to Manila Vicky Serrato, AFA in coordination with the administrative staff of PAKISAMA

Day 3 Nov 24, 2015 Tuesday

International/Regional Knowledge Sharing and Learning Workshop on

Institutional Purchases Organized by AFA and PAKISAMA with CSA’s support

8.30-9.00 Opening program Welcoming Remarks and Introductions

Jane U. Zamar , BDS Manager

Benny Aquillo, PAKISAMA Chairperson

9.00-9.20 Session 1: General Orientation on Global Perspective on Institutional Purchase and SDGs

With an 8 minute video presentation

- Olivier De Schutter, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

- Israel Klug, FAO Coordinatorr of PAA Africa

-Caroline Amrom, CSA

To level off the understanding of participants on the basic concepts of institutional purchase and overview of the three issues: Supply Side, Famers’ Capacity, Legislation

9.20-10.00 Session 2: The Philippines Main Institutional Purchase Program

Presentation of the PAHP

Lessons generated from Brazil's Study Tour

Question and Answer (QA)

-Lawrence Cruz, the

Program Coordinator of the Phil. PAHP

-Rene Cerilla,

PAKISAMA President

To introduce the Partnership

Against Hunger and Poverty Program of the Philippines and key updates

To give some feedback about the

national session in March and the Results of the Study Tour conducted in Brazil:

10.00-10.20 Coffee Break

10.20-12.00 30 min (with

translation)

Session 3: Sharing of Good Experiences of FO’s Capacity Strengthening

1. BRAZIL experience : Sharing of Brazil experience

on food purchase program, successes and

Celso Ludwig, Fetraf

representative

To understand FO capacity

strengthening requirements and its role to enable them to get better access to

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20 min 20 min 30 min

challenges in engaging with the government on food purchase program + Q/A

2. PAKISAMA experiences: challenges and opportunities in engaging government on food purchase program+ Q/A

3. Other Relevant Asean Experience

Summary of Lessons Learned

Tony Santos,

PAKISAMA representative Representative/s of

Vietnam, Cambodia, and / or Indonesia

Soc Banzuela,

PAKISAMA National Coordinator

this procurement. To determine how do the FOs’

strengthen the supply side at their members’ level

To determine common good

experiences and lessons learned

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:10 20 min 20 min

Session 4: Sharing of good experiences of Government capacity to establish and implement institutional purchase programs

Actions on Legislation / Contractualization Lessons Learned and Action Points in Legislation

Introduction by Luana

Swensson Introduction by Israel

Klug, FAO Coordinatorr of PAA

To generate lessons on legislating

institutional food purchase and on the contractualisation aspects that are key for a balanced commercial relationship

2:10- 3:15 25 min 30 min 10 min

Session 5: Focused discussions among groups on the different themes: what’s possible in Philippines and other Asean countries (Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam?

Group Workshop

Plenary Session with Q/A

Summary and Synthesis

Jane U. Zamar,

Facilitator

To determine challenges,

opportunities and action points on improving farmers’ engagement in government food purchase program

3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:00 Session 6: Feedbacks, Recommendations, and Support from Resource Persons and Visitors on the various possibilities of actions.

Jane U. Zamar, Facilitator

To listen to the experts on how they view possibilities of actions and their recommendations on the FOs’ identified possibilities

4:00-4:30 Re-entry Action Plans of the Different FOs in the Jane U. Zamar, To draft a specific 6-month to a

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Philippines Facilitator year work plan on Institutional Food Purchase Program

4:30 – 5:00 Conclusions and commitments Soc Banzuela, National Coordinator

To publicly verbalize each government agency, CSO and FO direction in terms of IPP

5:00 – 5:30 Closing Ceremony Vicky Serrato, AFA

Participants

Organization Number of participants Comments

Members of Pakisama 50

Members of other FOs from the Phillipines

20

Members of other FOs from the Asean Region

8 2 API (Indonesia), 1 FNN (Cambodia), 1 VNFU (Vietnam) 4 AFA

CONSEA delegation from Brazil 2 Celso Ludwig (Fetraf Brazil)

??? Governement Members of National and international NGO’s

Asiadhrra and other Agri-agencies, Riza (Oxfam,…)

Minsitries/Departments 8 Department of Social Affairs, of Education of Agriculture, of Budget

Other programs representative 3

WFP 1

FAO and PAA 4 from headquarter in Rome: -Luana Swensson (Market

Linkages and Value Chains FAO expert) - Israel Klug, FAO Coordinatorr of PAA Africa From Philippines:

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CSA 2 Marek Poznanski Caroline Amrom

Total 98 Subject to change

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3. The following annexes provide more information on

A. Knowledge-Sharing Forum on Institutional Food Purchase (March 2015) B. About the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP) C. Joint Executive-Legislative Study Trip in Brazil (July 2015) D. Legislation on Institutional Food Purchase and “Zero Hunger” E. Consolidation of PAKISAMA Organic Rice Enterprises F. KNOWLEDGE and LEARNING MARKET and Policy Engagement

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ANNEX A

Knowledge-Sharing Forum on Institutional Food Purchase1

Organized by PAKISAMA, in partnership with AFA and CSA March 24, 2015, Manila, Philippines

In March 2015, PAKISAMA organized a forum on Fighting Hunger through Partnerships: A Forum on

Brazil's Zero Hunger Program, Global and Asian Institutional Purchase, and the Philippines' Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP) at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, in partnership with AFA and CSA. The forum was attended by 70 representatives coming from different regions of the country and from various farmers’ federations, NGOs, and representatives from the social welfare and agrarian reform departments involved in building agri-based enterprises.

PAKISAMA invited two Brazilian CSO leaders to share their experience about Fome Zero and the FOs’ and

CSOs’ involvement in the program – Mr. Marcos Rochinski, Coordinator of FETRAF (National Federation of Family Farming Workers in Brazil) and Ms Maria Emilia Pacheco, President of National Council for Food and Nutritional Security (CONSEA). For technical reasons, their physical presence was unfortunately canceled but both of them intervened intensively by skype and by video messaging with much impact on the participants in the conference. The two Brazilian CSO leaders gave some more in-depth analysis of the success of the Brazilian experience.

Mr Rochinski emphasized that unless FOs are organized, it would be difficult for even a good policy or

programs like the ones included in Fome Zero to reach the individual farmers and that government must stimulate the association of farmers and cooperatives to support activities such as collective marketing of their products.

Ms. Pacheco likewise stressed that the quality of social participation and mobilization of FOs and CSOs in

the Brazilian experience is very important to fight hunger and attain food and nutritional security, and that this was something they would like to share with other countries.

Both of them express their availability and of their respective organizations and institutions to share their

experience with Filipino FOs and Government representatives through exchange visit and facilitation of access to different resource persons.

Most FOs who joined the forum were unaware of the PAHP and expressed their intent to participate in the

program at all stages, including from the design phase. They urged PAHP coordinators to ensure the participation of a broader network of farmers, not only those assisted by the DAR, and that farmers are represented in the project’s policy and implementing structures at all levels, from municipal to the national.

1 Also see: http://pakisama.com/2015/06/23/brazils-zero-hunger-strategy-fighting-hunger-through-

partnerships/

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ANNEX B

About the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP)

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) are presently implementing the PAHP program after the DAR and DSWD Secretaries visited the World Food Programme – Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brasilia, Brazil to personally understand the Zero Hunger and the Food Purchase programs two years ago. The PAHP is a collaborative undertaking that engages smallholder farmers and day care centers towards reducing poverty and improving income.

The PAHP builds on the success of the Brazilian Government in providing agricultural extension services

linked to the nutrition needs of their feeding program. The direct recipients and key stakeholders of the PAHP are the: (i) Day care children and parents’ group ; (ii) Smallholder farmers’ organizations and family farms, and (iii) Participating local government units (LGUs) and collaborating national government agencies.

The PAHP Framework

Under the PAHP, day care children are expected to benefit from the nutritional benefits of fresh and

chemical-free vegetables that will be supplied by the smallholder farmers’ organizations to the Day Care Centers through the DSWD-LGU Supplementary Feeding Program. The smallholder farmers’ organization will benefit from increased income through organized production and logistics as well as market-referenced price of their produce. Children enrolled in the Day Care Centers are expected to benefit from assured fresh food supply for their feeding program while the DAR, DSWD, and DA are expected to enhance their support services delivery mechanisms in rural communities.

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The DAR and DA provide essential support services (e.g., business development and agri-extension) and

business assets (e.g., farm machines and equipment) to smallholder farmers’ organizations. The DSWD and LGUs provide assistance through determining the nutritional needs of children and organizing the parents for food preparation. Thus far, the budget for the first year of implementation comes from the resources of the national government agencies.

Now on its first year of implementation, the PAHP is being pilot tested in Region 5 and rolled out in

Regions 8 and 9, or in about 4% of all municipalities in the Philippines which were selected due to their high rates of malnutrition and poverty. Four types of PAHP models are being pilot-tested: (i) Congressional District model (to look at influence of district legislators); (ii) Provincial model; (iii) Municipal model; and (iv) City model e.g., Dipolog City, to replicate Valenzuela City Central Kitchen, the first city-wide In-School Feeding Program in the country launched in 2012.

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According to the PAHP National Coordinator,

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implementation of PAHP. (i) ARBOs and FOs are now aware that they can market their farm produce to the Day Care Centers in their respective areas; (ii) DSWD-LGU may now consider buying the required food items for Day Care Centers from ARBOs/FOs; (iii) Initial arrangements on food item procurement agreed between LGU and ARBOs is facilitated by DAR and DSWD; (iv) Roll-out of the PAHP to Regions VIII and IX are drawn from lessons from Region V; (v) Enhanced partnership among DSWD, DA and DAR through the PAHP Convergence Team; and (vi) Technical inputs and advisory services from the International Consultant in PAHP design framework, procurement procedures and development of the M&E system.

Some of the problems encountered during pilot implementation of PAHP include: (i) inability of

ARBO/FO to issue official receipts as per procurement guidelines; (ii) Liquidation issues of LGUs vis DSWD, hence the stoppage of feeding programs; Supply of food items is based on prescribed menu which FOs cannot readily supply; (iv) non-inclusion of farmers, e.g., landless farmers, who are not members of ARBOs/FOs; and (iv) other procurement issues.

According to the PAHP implementing agencies, sustaining and institutionalizing the PAHP would require

the following: 1) An agreed-upon procurement procedure to include policies on market-referenced pricing to ensure that

the market is not distorted when government offices purchase in bulk from smallholder farmers’ organizations, 2) Regular budgetary appropriation for national implementation, and 3) Continuing collaborative efforts of DSWD, DA, DAR and LGUs in sustaining the gains of the initial phase

of PAHP implementation toward a nation-wide coverage.

2 http://www.ateneo.edu/news/valenzuela-central-kitchen-blessing;

http://www.valenzuela.gov.ph/index.php/article/news/1225 3 Interview with Mr Lawrence Cruz, March 2015, DAR, Manila, Philippines

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ANNEX C

Joint Executive-Legislative Study Trip in Brazil July 3-13, 2015, Brasilia, Brazil

In July 2015, the PAHP implementing agencies (DAR, DA, DSWD) organized a study mission with selected

Philippine legislators to deepen their understanding of Brazil’s social protection, smallholder farmers’ development and other programs. The WFP Philippines Director, one CSO leader and the PAKISAMA President joined the study trip.

Two years ago, the DAR and DSWD Secretaries visited Brazil to learn about its anti-poverty, social

protection, human rights, and rural development initiatives. After the visit, a pilot project was instituted by DA, DAR and DSWD: the Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty (PAHP). The agencies felt that it was high time to scale up, institutionalize, and put legislative actions on the PAHP, and to consider replicating and adapting other important lessons from Brazil to the Philippines.

The study mission aimed to see how the implementation of the PAHP could be strengthened, sustained

and institutionalized vis funding, procurement and other support. The legislators from the lower House of Congress wanted to know the lessons in Brazil that enabled the passage of the National Food Security Act and apply this to the proposed Right to Adequate Food and other legislative measures in the Philippine Congress.

The July study trip included field visits to show the “demand side” of the Zero Hunger program (Food hub;

School – To see the food preparation, see how nutritional requirements are addressed, mingle with the children or the ultimate beneficiaries; Lunch at a community kitchen), and the “supply side” of the program (smallholder farmers’ farm and discussions with farmers’ organizations). One site visited was the "Chapadinha" Settlement organized by the National Federation of Workers in Family Farming (FETRAF).

Inputs were provided on the: (a) historical overview: History of Zero Hunger program, how it has evolved;

What was Brazil before there was Bolsa Familia? What was the make-up of the agriculture sector, agrarian reform, human rights situation? (b) Overview of the programs: social protection program, who are the beneficiaries: targeting, selection; What are the impacts and tangible results? Who are the smallholder farmers: targeting, selection; Discussion on components of family farms that supply the feeding program: technical extension, business management, marketing; what are the results in terms of farmers’ income.

The visit to the National Council on Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA) provided a discussion forum on

the policies and that made the programs possible: What policies were passed? How did these evolve? Who were the champions at the legislative and executive sides? What were the incentives to different stakeholders? What were the political and social discussions?

The discussion with the Brazil legislators aimed to provide a sharing of how they were able to pass their

National Food Security Act and on the political, economic, social and other conditions that led to the passage of the law.

The study trip also showed the links: Between social protection and smallholder farming; Between Brazil

and other countries that implement similar initiatives; and between actual programs and the policies that enabled them. Inputs on special topics were provided: Land reform in Brazil; Cash transfer program in Brazil; Credit programs for smallholder farmers; Discussion with civil society organizations on the National Food Framework Act.

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ANNEX D

Legislation on Institutional Food Purchase and “Zero Hunger”

There is a need for a national food policy based on human right to adequate food. The 1987 Philippine Constitution does not explicitly recognize the right to adequate food, Scattered provisions of various laws enforce different aspects of the right to adequate food, e.g.: Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (RA 9700), Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (RA 8435), Philippine Fisheries Code (RA 8550), Magna Carta for Small Farmers (RA 7607), Organic Agriculture Act (RA 10068), National Dairy Act (RA 7884), High Value Crops Act (RA 7900), Agricultural Tariffication Act (RA 8178), Seed Industry Development Act (RA 7308), Plant Variety Protection Act (RA 9168), Milk Code (EO 51), Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000 (RA 8976) and Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710) which has a specific provision on the right to food.

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The Philippines is a signatory to international declarations such as the Convention of the Rights of the Child

and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which contain provisions for the right to food for all. Moreove, it is increasingly recognized that any proposed policy on food must conform with the recommendations of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESR) and the FAO's Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food. CESR defined the right to adequate food as "physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement."

Currently, there are several biils pending in Congress related to institutionalizing food purchase programs

and addressing hunger. The National Food Security Act of 2015 (House Bill 6062) was recently filed by Rep. Leni Robredo after her

participation in the Brazil Study Trip in July 2015. The bill aims to streamline food procurement and food distribution systems nationwide. It will establish a National Feeding Program for children 0 – 13 years old, which will address hunger and malnutrition in the entire country. In addition, the proposed measure creates a structured demand for produce that ensures and raises the income for Small-Scale Food Producers - incapable of competing with big industry producers. The pending bill also creates a system where Small-Scale Food Producers are given constant demand by requiring government to procure at least 30% of supplies needed for the feeding program from Small-Scale Producers – giving them constant revenue. The bill will establish a National Food Security Council which will oversee the effective distribution, procurement and targeting of beneficiaries, and which will be composed of representatives from government, CSOs and small scale food producers. Procurement from small-scale producers shall be exempted from the Procurement Law and shall undergo Negotiated Procurement Participation.

The Right to Adequate Food Framework Act of 2014 (or Zero Hunger Bill) (House Bill 3795 / Senate Bill

2137)5 seeks to establish a comprehensive framework to ensure the right of every Filipino to access adequate

food at all times using the human rights based approach. If passed into law, government will be held accountable to see that this right is fulfilled at the specified deadline of 10 years. The bill includes important

4 Sec 20 of RA 9710: “(a) Right to Food. – The State shall guarantee the availability of food in quantity and

quality sufficient to satisfy the dietary needs of individuals, the physical and economic accessibility for everyone to adequate food that is culturally acceptable and free from unsafe substances and culturally accepted, and the accurate and substantial information to the availability of food, including the right to full, accurate, and truthful information about safe and health-giving foods and how to produce and have regular easy access to them;”

5 HB 3795 was filed by Akbayan Representatives Barry Gutierrez and Walden Bello (now resigned),

together with Dinagat Rep Kaka Bag‐ao and Quezon City District 6 Representative Kit Belmonte in February 2014. SB 2137 was filed by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago in February 2014.

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provisions that aim to help achieve food security for all and adopts a whole of government approach to hunger.

6 The law will establish a Commission on the Right to Adequate Food (CRAF) which is mandated to implement

the law and cooperate and work with other government agencies. The whole of government will have the duty to ensure that its programs and projects promote, rather than obstruct, the realization of the right to adequate food.

The Healthy Food for Poor Children Program (Senate Bill No. 1347)

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Work and Development (DSWD), Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Health (DOH) to establish feeding programs in low‐income communities and depressed areas to mitigate hunger especially among poor children and pregnant women. The added benefit is the assistance to local farmers by buying their produce without the added cost of storage and transportation to markets. The Legarda bill tasks the DA to select farmers’ organizations and cooperatives from which good quality fruits, vegetables and other healthy foodstuffs are to be purchased at minimal cost. As much as practicable, the farmers and farmer’s organizations should be from the locality wherein the feeding program is to be administered.

The National School Feeding Program (NSFP) Act provides for the gradual implementation of NSFP in all

public schools in the country with the Department of Education (DepEd) as lead agency. Currently, the DepEd is implementing the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) which consists of providing food in addition to the regular meals of “severely wasted” school children to address the under nutrition problem and short term hunger among public school children.

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The Magna Carta of the Poor (House Bill 4528) aims to establish a system of progressive implementation

of the full enjoyment of the five fundamental rights of the poor – right to food, right to employment and livelihood, right to quality education, right to shelter and the right to basic health services and medicines. The Department of Agriculture (DA) is mandated to purchase the agricultural produce of poor farmers through its local buying stations. The DSWD is directed to expand a program of subsidy to help the poor meet their minimum food requirements.

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6 e.g., increasing the agricultural productivity of small farmers and indigenous peoples by ensuring them

the right to their land and providing technical, financial, and material assistance; increasing the amount of land used for food production; improving poor communities’ ownership of land and access to resources; strengthening the role of women in food production; the right to adequate food response during times of disasters and emergencies.

7 Filed in 2010 by Sen. Loren Legarda: “A robust farm sector will generate higher income and new jobs for

rural workers and guarantee affordable consumer products to relieve the burden of foodpoor Filipinos. The poor, the worst hit spend 60 percent of their household budget on food, with 18 percent spent on rice alone.”

8 The wasted children may also be included in the program in localities where partners such as the local

government units and NGOs are present. The DepEd feeding program lasts for 120 days. The DepEd Nutritional Assessment Report for SY 2012‐ 2013 had revealed that 14.24% or about 2 million school children are wasted and 0.4 million school children are overweight.

9 All food items and food products, including rice, corn, sugar and other prime commodities, seized and

forfeited with finality in favor of the government for violations of customs laws shall be automatically transferred or turned over to the DSWD for proper disposition. The DA and the LGUs are tasked to develop plans and projects to complement existing food subsidy programs of the government so that the poor can engage in productive activities that promote food self sufficiency among the poor.

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ANNEX E

Consolidation of PAKISAMA Organic Rice Enterprises PAKISAMA has initiated the process of consolidation of 9 organic rice enterprises of member FOs for

purposes of bulk marketing and possible institutional purchase. In August 2014, PAKISAMA organized the Organic Rice Enterprises Summit which provided a venue for market linkaging and matching resources from government and CSOas for organic rice production and marketing, with 55 PAKISAMA farmer leaders and staff in attendance, 38% of them women.

Resource persons from CSA and government agencies shared various lessons and offered commitments to

help PAKISAMA FOs in engaging in institutional food purchase –

CSA on Institutional Purchases to Support Family Farming: Lessons learned from the Brazilian model, and highlights of the PAKISAMA research;

Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD) on Linking Sustainable Livelihood Program to the Supplementary Feeding Program: The Commodity Cluster Model: DSWD offered to help in FOs’ negotiations with local governments in the procurement of food supply from local farmers. DSWD’s new Feeding Program Guidelines provides that food supplies be procured from local producers and if the value is small, there is no need for competitive bidding. To allow local procurement, the specification for the quality of product can include “produced locally”;

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) / Brazilian consultant (Flavio Flávio Luiz Mazzaro de Fretas) on PAHP Pilot Project: FAO identified potential areas for collaboration in institutional purchase from local FOs and agrarian reform beneficiary organizations (ARBOs) in DSWD feeding programs through the PAHP (Partnership Against Hunger and Poverty) pilot areas in Regions 5, 8 and 9;

Department of Education (DepEd) on The Role of DepEd in Building Organic Rice Enterprises through School-Based Feeding Program: showed potential links between DepEd and PAKISAMA FOs on institutional procurement in the agency’s School-Based Feeding Program. DepEd cited its pilot areas in Bohol and Lanao del Norte, the Commission on Audit (COA) allowed RER (reimbursement issue receipt) for schools to buy from local farmers/suppliers who do not have official receipts. The DepEd can also help through: a) Policy support – In school feeding, a TWG can develop guidelines for inclusion, institutionalization of school feeding; b) Advocacy – e.g. lobbying to use brown rice for consumption in curriculum; c) Nutrition education; d) Linkages.

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ANNEX F

KNOWLEDGE and LEARNING MARKET and Policy Engagement

(KLMPE 2015) Theme: IYFF +1 Partnership for Food Security, Nutrition and Climate Resiliency: Increasing Farmers

Market Power

(concept paper, 18 August 2015+1)

DATE: 25-26 November, 2015 PARTICIPANTS: 200 IFAD PARTNERS, MTCP2, AGRICORD PARTNERS, DA/DAR PARTNERS, TWG Members,

VENUE: BSWM Rationale Last year the country concelebrated the International Year of Family Farming. One of the ways we

celebrated the event was when we gathered 370 leaders and representatives of farmer organizations, NGOs, academe, and government agencies in a two day trade fair, knowledge and learning market, and policy engagement conference. In that event, ten policy papers grouped in five key themes (asset reforms, climate change and resiliency, governance, young farmers, and enterprise development) were deliberated culminating in the submission to and acceptance by government representative of what has been known as the Quezon City Declaration.

A year has passed and it is important to generate updates on the policies and programs presented to

government and to craft action points for the coming years. This year we celebrate the International Year of the Soils, a theme very much at the core of the five

themes discussed in last year's event. Family farming is very much about providing small family farmers ownership and control over a piece of land they till, and build their dreams. It is about nurturing the soils to produce sustainably the cereals, vegetables, fruits and where livestock can grow and graze. It is about a system of production that nurtures biological diversity and fosters resiliency against climate change. It is about ensuring a special place for farming in the hierarchy of vocations and professions the youth would consider seriously. Family farming is about economic viability, ensuring better markets and income for farmers, as they provide healthy and safe food to society. Finally, it is about building institutions of farmers they can call their own, that would defend and nurture them as agri-entrepreneurs.

This year, we are again gathering at least 200 leaders of farmers and fishers organizations, civil society

organizations and government agencies to exchange innovations and good practices, and deliberate on current policies and programs that promote family farming. Specifically, we would like to focus on three inter-related topics such as (i) sustainable agriculture and climate resiliency, (ii) institutional purchase and farmers/fishers market, (iii) building agri-cooperatives. Inspiring initiatives and models will be presented and explored with the view for mainstreaming and providing stronger case for current asset reform and young farmers policy advocacy initiatives.

Objectives

1. Generate progress updates, review current challenges and opportunities on 2014 IYFF declaration and commitments;

2. Draw lessons from current models /innovations on climate-resilient agriculture, institutional

purchase and farmers' market, and agri-cooperatives; 3. Agree on action points for 2016 that would advance capacity building and effective participation of

family farmers in policy making and program implementation, monitoring and evaluation of current government programs that build family farmers' cooperatives, increase their market power and capacity to mitigate climate change.

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Features 1. Interactive Exhibits and Sessions will showcase knowledge products and processes related to family

farming from IFAD, DA, DAR and CSO supported programmes and projects. At the center of the exhibit area, will be mini sessions where exhibitors will have scheduled presentations of their knowledge products and processes.

2. Quezon City Declaration Progress will be presented jointly by a representative from the government

and CSOs. The presentation will be followed by a panel reaction mainly from the farmers. The government, CSO, and FO representatives will agree on the way forward to pursue the unfinished business of the Quezon City Declaration.

3. Models of i) sustainable agriculture and climate resiliency, (ii) institutional purchase and

farmers/fishers market, and (iii) building agri-cooperatives:

a) Integrated Diversified Organic Farming (IDOFS). Given the reality of Climate Change and the Philippines as target of strong typhoons and dry spell, it is important to understand how farmers are preparing and changing their production system to adapt to the "new norm". Following the relief work in Yolanda areas, current innovations in rehabilitation are being undertaken with the view of building agriculture and fisheries back better. Innovations in Eastern Samar and in Leyte on Integrated Diversified Organic Farming (IDOFS) will be presented and discussed.

b) DAR/DSWD Institutional Purchase. Ensuring markets and better price for farmers' products has always been a key issue among family farmers. Current initiatives by the Department of Agrarian Reform and DSWD and other agencies in linking the feeding program with the local family farmer producers, patterned after the successful zero hunger program of Brazil will be presented.

c) “Bagsakan/ Landing Isda”. Also to be presented and discussed is the Department of Agriculture's currently program constructing and establishing what it calls the farmers' market or "bagsakan" in several parts of the country patterned after a successful 12-year initiative in Sariaya Quezon, which increases the bargaining power of organized farmers in the market place, eliminating the middle traders in the system. The DA/BFAR's program on establishing fish landings in more than 200 municipalities will also be discussed.

d) Agri Koop. Finally, strengthening farmers organizations has long been a key concern given most farmers are not affiliated to farmers organizations that are able to effectively defend and promote their interests. Experience of three of the most successful agri-cooperatives in the country providing full value chain services to their respective members will be presented. Their stories should be able to provide inspiration to most farmers to undertake similar initiatives in their respective areas and for policy makers and advocates to provide the necessary support.

4. 2016 Action Points. To close the two-day event, 2016 action points will be presented by the CSOs and

FOs to the government representative. The action points will contain follow up recommendations to the Quezon City Declaration as well as other actions that would advance the capacity building and effective participation of family farmers in policy making and program implementation, monitoring and evaluation of current government programs that build family farmers' cooperatives, and to increase family farmers’ market power and capacity to mitigate climate change.

Indicative Programme November 25, 2015

8:00-8:15 Opening of Interactive Exhibit and Sessions10

8:15-9:30 Opening program

prayers

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The mini interactive sessions will have a separate programme depending on the participating exhibitors.

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national anthem

welcome remarks

keynote speech

9:30-11:00 Progress Updates on the 2014 IYFF Declarations (Asset Reforms, Productivity, Climate Change, Governance, Young Farmers)

11:00-12:00

Review of current challenges and opportunities

12:00-1:00 Lunch break

1:00-4:00 Good practices of empowering family farmers

SusAg and climate resiliency (IDOFS)

Enlarging Farmers and Fishers' Market Power (institutional purchase and farmers' market)

Governance (AgriCoops)

4-5 Open Forum

November 26, 2015

9:00-9:30 Recap of Day 1

9:30-9:45 Workshop Instruction

9:45-12:00 Workshop

Climate resiliency

Enterprise Dev/Market

Governance

12:00-1:00 Lunch break

1:00-3:30 Presentation of workshop results

3:30-4:30 Panel reaction

SusAg and Climate Resiliency (DA-NOAB+CSO)

Enterprise Dev (Leni Robredo, Dinky Soliman, DA for farmers' market +CSO)

Governance (Cres Paez, Orlan Ravanera +CSO)

4:30-5:00 Synthesis and Presentation of Declaration, Acceptance from Government - Usec. Rose Bistoyong

5:00-5:30 Closing (awarding, closing remarks, photo ops)

Management and Coordination: a) Co-Convenors: b) Technical Working Group: IFAD, DAR, DA, CSOs (PAKISAMA, AsiaDHRRA, AGRICORD Philippine

Synergy Group, ANGOC, MTCP2)