the epic-seed program

Welcome

what is the program?

The EPIC-SEED program is aimed at helping build the rural economy for the benefit of the basic sectors – the peasants and IPs.  It follows a holistic approach to ensure land tenure security by integrating value chain of the small economic enterprise development loop. The value chain starts from financing to production, to processing and marketing. Peasants and IPs must integrate their farming activities backward to their supply sources and forward to downstream markets. In order to do this, it is necessary to empower the POs to manage collective community-based enterprises.

 

KEY COMPONENTS

LAND TENURE IMPROVEMENT

The goal of land tenure improvement is composed of two major reform areas:

  1. Agrarian Reform focused on agricultural lands under CARP
  2. Ancestral Domain Lands under the IPRA

 

ECONOMIC SUPPORT SERVICES

Simply giving farmers and indigenous peoples land is not enough. They must have economic programs in order for them to have greater control over their land and their means of production.

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDING

The farmers and indigenous peoples also require a foundation by which they could not only survive, but thrive. These programs include:

  1. Institutional Building for Leaders
  2. Scholarships
  3. Non-Formal Education