Various organizations of farmers, fisherfolk, agribusiness owners and members of the academe have come together to release a position paper that is meant to help “reverse” the current state of the agriculture industry. The Bayanihan sa Agrikultura, Federation of Free Farmers, Alyansa Agrikultura, Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food and the Coalition for Agriculture Modernization in the Philippines laid out 12 recommendations that, according to them, were keys to achieving food security, job creation, poverty eradication and balanced rural-urban development.

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