Legarda bats for 4K Act to empower indigenous communities

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda is pushing for the institutionalization of the Department of Agriculture’s Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4K) Program, a nationwide initiative designed to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion among Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) by creating and strengthening farm-to-market linkages.

She emphasized that the measure ...