Dalabajan, Dante and Jacinto Jr, Eusebio and Hillario, Maria Golda Paz Back in the game: Winning strategies for private sector investments on small producers in the Philippines. Oxfam, Philippines.
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‘We are so broke,’ laments farmer Arnel Britalyer of Brgy. Kanlurang Bukal, Liliw, Laguna. Truckloads of tomato in his and the nearby villages are left to rot by the roadside as the price of tomato plunged from P12 in January to P1 per kilo in May 2011. Farmers in Kanlurang Bukal are left without money for the next planting season and face more hardships down the road. Leonardo Nepomuceno, another farmer, wonders, ‘How can we get back on our feet? We borrowed from the bank. We borrowed from loan-sharks. We borrowed medicines in the stores. Who is going to loan us if we cannot pay?’ The situation in the cities, however, conceals the desperation that pervades in rural villages like Kanlurang Bukal. Here, the towering presence of supermarkets and food retail outlets in almost every major street and district seem to conjure an image of a vibrant agriculture, an encouraging sign of the bright prospects facing this important segment of the economy. This paper is one of three Oxfam briefers on private sector investments in agriculture in the Philippines. This outlines why majority of the smallholder farmers in the country are being left out of the game and builds the case on why the business sector should invest responsibly on smallholder agriculture. This paper also discusses the public policy environment that hinders the growth of private sector – small producers’ partnerships and what choices the government must make to nurture these partnerships.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Philippines, Governance, Public sector, Private sector, Farmers, Agriculture, Value Chain, Governance, Farmers, Policy |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Vivek D ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2024 05:09 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2024 05:09 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/19839 |
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