• The main objective of the sustainable agriculture is food security, not productivity.

• For farming to be sustainable, it has to have philosophy and culture behind it, not merely technology. Technology is only secondary to philosophy, and technology alone can corrupt food security. Taking Japan as an example - Japan has rice security because there is a myth in rice. Japanese don’t eat Thai or any other rice except theirs; it’s something cultural.

• When teaching technology to farmers, there should be political advocacy for it to work. Agriculture is highly dependent on policy. One example is legislation: No agricultural lands should be converted to non-agricultural use.

• Strategy/Goals should be clearly stated in any undertaking so as to influence not only the community, but also the local government.

1. Fr. Francis Lucas of Infanta Integrated Community Development
        Assistance, Inc. (ICDAI)
2. Ms. Marianne Rotaquio of Infanta Integrated Community Development
        Assistance, Inc. (ICDAI)

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