Challenges to UN’s family farming decade

The Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act of 1997 granted tribal peoples the right to legal title to their ancestral lands through certificates of ancestral domain titles . But the process of issuing CADTs has been overly long and tortuous. Twenty-seven years after Ipra was signed, many indigenous communities have yet to gain land titles. In the meantime, their land rights are being repeatedly transgressed by corporate incursions and large-scale infrastructure projects.

CADT holders, however, face a new peril in the form of joint management agreements imposed on IPs by special economic zones . These result in corporate-friendly SEZs taking over management and control over titled ancestral lands—the opposite of what Ipra had intended. Among fisherfolk, the long-running challenge has been the dominance by big fishing corporations and their forays into areas reserved for small-scale fishers. But a new menace facing fisherfolk are the 102 reclamation projects along coastal areas in the country covering 38,272 hectares. Aside from the loss of livelihood and homes by fisher families, reclamation projects are also the most environmentally destructive of all projects and cannot be corrected or reverted.

Of grave concern are the violations of human rights of small farmers, fisherfolk, and indigenous peoples through the red-tagging of their organization, endangering the lives of their leaders and members. Harassment, arrests and killings have taken place. There is no doubt that these deplorable conditions are replicated in many countries in the world. As the UN commences the Decade of Family Farming to celebrate the rural grassroots, it should also confront the social, economic and political forces that make family farmers the poorest and most marginalized sectors of modern society.Eduardo C. Tadem, Ph.D. is convener of the Program on Alternative Development of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

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