While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies.. Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.

1. Enhancing Profitability In
Family Farms
Esther Penunia
Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA)

2. MTCP2
In Partnership with:
FAO, SEWA, ASIADHRRA
(main TA providers)

3. Why are we poor, hungry,
malnourished?
• Natl Resource issues
Land,Water, forests,
Seeds)
• Productivity issues
• Marketing issues
• Climate change and
natural disasters
• Governance issues

10. Local Initiatives to Establish
Food Reserve
1. “Lumbung
Pangan”
 In Cianjur (West
Java Province)
 In Boyolali (Central
Java Province)

11. 2. Developing Local Seeds. Rice seeds cross-breeding in Boyolali (Central
Java Province), and Ngada (East Nusa Tenggara Province), while maize
seeds breeding is in Kediri (East Java Province)

12. 3. Establishing Cooperatives
“Tunda Jual” (putting off the
selling) in Brebes (Central Java)
and Kediri (East Java)
4. Join Cooperation with rice
and vegetables wholesales
markets in Jakarta

13. 5. Research and multi stakeholder meeting on Rice:
“Government Purchasing Price (HPP)” in Jakarta (related
ministries are Agriculture, Trade, Forestry, Bulog (Logistic
Agency), and Ministry of Coordinator of Economy)
Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) has been advocating the better price of rice for
small producers through a serie of research on Government Purchasing Price based
on multi location and multi variety of rice instead of single price.

14. 7. Building Collective Marketing
Strengthening farmers’ association, developing economic
organizations in rural areas, building the capacity of farmers in
order to develop collective marketing.

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16. Picture1: Multi-purpose farm Picture2: Canal and dike preparation

17. Renewable Energy System
• bio-digester program encourages farmer to use
power source by using cattle and pig dung. It can
produce biogas from cattle- and pig manure. This
yields gas for the stove and for lighting. And it
reduces emissions of methane, which would
otherwise be produced by the decomposing manure.

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19. In the community….
- 80 farmers use SRI
-size of families experiencing insufficiency in rice
decreased from 30 percent to 10 percent
• duration of rice shortage declined from 3 to 6 months
to only 3 months at most
• able to save on cost of production, especially on
chemical fertilizers and seeds, resulting in an
increase in income from rice production

20. Savings and Credit Group – from local to
national

21.  Pablo De Ocampo, a calamansi producer
 42 Years old, Married
 Calamansi Cluster Leader, Bgy Antonino,
Victoria, Oriental Mindoro
 Farmer Technician
 Member of MESAFED

22. Our farms are almost planted solely to
calamansi. Most of our calamansi stands are
now old and tall. Harvesting is the most costly
part of our production - second to hauling.

23. I also intercrop bananas in between the
pineapples. I need banana trunks for my
vermicast production as fertilizer for my crops.

24. At the side of the farm, I
planted more than 1,500
hills of ube. I project to earn
___ pesos after one year.

25. Block
Area
Crops Area
(Sq.
Mtrs
Volume Expense
s
Projected
Gross
Income
Block
1
Household
Vegetables
400 284 hills 2,951 7,830
Block
2
Free Range Chicken 1,728 100
chicks
9,790 18,000
Block
3
Muskobe Duck 1800 100
chicks
1,950 15,000
Block
4
Pineapple
Banana
Lemon Grass
2400 2,400
hills
144 hills
144 hills
19,064 114,480
Block
5
Ube 630 2268
hills
24,844 170,000
Main Crop – Fresh Calamansi 51,420 257,100
Lanzones - Pakyaw 86,400
TOTAL 110.019 668,810
Net Income 558.791
Per Month 46,566

26. Mindoro Ecological and Sustainable Agriculture Federation, Inc.
(MESAFED)
ACTIVITIES OF MESAFED
 Partnership with local government units on different advocacy issues
primarily on environment, and various development projects
especially on sustainable agriculture.
 Improvement of farm technologies and practices based on organic
farming
 Building Agro-Business Enterprises; linking farmers to market.
( Presentation will concentrate on the Agro-Business Enterprises.)

27. Processed food products produced by
some of MESAFED’s primary members

28. Virgin Coconut Oil
Organic Rice Trading

29. Production of bio-organic fertilizers

30. Collective Marketing of Fresh Calamansi

31. The solutions we offer
• sustainable, integrated, diversified,
organic/ecological friendly agriculture which is
owned , controlled and managed by small
scale women and men farmers, fishers and
indigenous peoples,
• Joint/collective /cooperative production and
marketing activities ; sustainable enterprises
• Massively supported by goverrment policies
and programs

32. Global Challenge/Paradoxes
Unsustainable food production and consumption
1. DOUBLE BURDEN: Under-nutrition and Obesity
- One in three developing country children under the age of five
(171 million children) are stunted due to chronic undernutrition
- At the same time obesity rates have increased drastically in
some countries over the last 30 years. 43 million children
under five years of age are overweight, and obesity affects
around 500 million adults, increasingly in low and middle
income countries
2. FOOD LOSSES AND FOOD WASTE
• Food Losses
– Take place at the beginning of the supply chain - during production,
post-harvest and processing stages in the food supply chain
• Food Waste
– Food losses occurring at the end of the food supply chain and is largely
associated with the behavior of retailers, the food service sector and
consumers.
• Food losses and wastes reduce food availability and contribute to greenhouse gas
emissions. They also represent the wastage of inputs - water, energy, fertilisers,
labour and capital - used in food production, distribution and disposal.

33. Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
by small-scale farmers: key to ending hunger
1. Access to key productive
resources (land, water,
seeds, energy, etc)
2. Public and Private
investment in small-scale
food producers (particularly
women) including fishers,
pastoralist
3.Meaningful participation
of small-scale farmers in
governance
http://www.soilassociation.org/sustainablefoodcities/thefivethemes
More diverse diets than Fortification &
biofortification

34. The support we ask
• A clear, systematic redirection of
investment, funding, research and
policy focus on sustainable,
integrated, diversified, organic
farming and agro-based enterprises
by smallscale producers

35. Particular support in
• More Agricultural research and investment
• Strengthen links between research,
advisory and extension
• Technical assistance , focusing on women
• Capacity building
• Representation in policy making

36. Policy Objectives
• 2 major policy objectives :
-support and promote the sustainability of farmer-owned
and farmer-led private enterprises.
-ensure that the sharing of risks and benefits between
farmers and investors are equitable and inclusive and
does not further undermine the farmers’ livelihood and
welfare.

37. Agricultural Investment
Policy Lever Policy Intent
Policies that support smallholders Policies that support women
Investment
policies
• Scrutiny of investment proposals and
monitoring of approved investments to
protect smallholder interests
 Tax incentives for sourcing from or
working with smallholder
 Gender-sensitive screening and
monitoring
Control over
land and natural
resources
 Measures that strengthen local rights to
land and natural resources
 Redistributive reforms
 Protection of customary rights
 Simple, low-cost, accessible land records/
registration
 Requirements for local consultation and
FPIC
 Repeal of gender-discriminatory
clauses
 Address conflict between statutory and
customary land laws
 Guarantees for women to own,
inherit, buy/sell land in own right
 Joint land titling
 Gender quotas
Access
condition for
land and natural
resources
 Regulation of commercial investment
 Restrictions on land ownership
 Charging adequate prices for land
 Open contracting
Contract
farming and
supply chain
relationships
 Access to information on technology and
markets
 Contract support, regulation,
monitoring

38. Market Governance
Policy Lever Policy Intent
Policies that support smallholders Policies that support women
Producer
organisations
 Laws and tax to support smallholders to compete
 Protection of autonomy of cooperatives
 No taxation of intra-cooperative trade
 Remove clauses that (indirectly)
discriminate against women
 Affirmative actions
 Support informal groups
Diversity of market
outlets
 Public support to upgrade traditional wholesale
markets and informal sector
 Enable participation of private sector and
cooperatives
 Simple infrastructure improvements, e.g.
calibrated scales
 Protection of traditional markets e.g. zoning
modern retail
 Support or upgrade informal sector,
esp local markets, street vendors,
wet markets
 Address women’s market access
constraints
Market
coordination
 Investment in market fundamentals eg storage
facilities
Competition policy  Break up of cartels
 Fair trading laws or codes
Quotas and market
preference
 Incentives for procurement from smallholders
 Public procurement policies
 Smallholder access to export quotas
Public policies and
private standards
 Create a level playing field for smallholders, e.g.
training, subsidies
 Gender-sensitive support criteria
and services
Trade policy  Treat small-scale sectors as infant industry,

39. Support for Farmer-led/managed enterprises
• Donors : support organizing and capacity
building; financing guidelines
• NGOs : partner with FOs on awareness
raising, organizing, building enterprise devt
activities
• Private sector : sustainability and
inclusivity measures
• Consumers : patronize the products ,
networking for direct farmer-consumer
relations

40. Homework for FOs
• Organize according to geographic clusters
and along commodity/crop lines.
• Instill an “sustainable entrepreneurial
attitude”.
• Strengthen advocacy for policies and
regulations

41. Healthy,
Sustainable,just
Caring and
Sharing
Community
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STRENGTHEING
LOCAL INITIATIVES
1.advocacy/campaign for
land rights (water, seed,
etc) for both men and women
2.Capacity building for
Sustainable Agricultural
productivity and marketing
3.Cooperative Enterprise Dev’t
4.Constructive engagement
with government,business
other stakeholders

42. Concluding message
We feed the world and care for the earth but
we are highly vulnerable
We are big part of the solution, Let us be part
of the AGRI DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES –
local, natiional, regional , global
Together we can build a healthy, sustainable,
caring and sharing family farming
communities.
THANK YOU