poverty and have little or no access to land and other resources,
basic social and economic services such as health care
education, water and sanitation, employment and livelihood
opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure,
and the justice system.
These include, but are not limited to, women in the following
sectors and groups:
(1) "Small Farmers and Rural Workers" refers to those
who are engaged directly or indirectly in small farms
and forests areas, workers in commercial farms and
plantations, whether paid or unpaid, regular or seasonbound. These shall include, but are not limited to, (a)
small farnmers who own or are still amortizing for lands
that is not more than three (3) hectares, tenants,
leaseholders, and stewards; and (b) rural workers who
are either wage earners, self-employed, unpaid family
workers directly and personally engaged in agriculture,
small-scale mining, handicrafts, and other related farm
and off-farm activities;
2) "Fisherfolk" refers to those directly or indirectly
engaged in taking, culturing, or processing fishery or
aquatic resources. These include, but are not to be
limited to, women engaged in fishing in municipal
waters, coastal and marine areas, women workersin
commercial fishing and aquaculture, vendors and
processors of fish and coastal products, and subsistence
producers such as shell-gatherers, managers, and
producers of mangrove resources, and other related
producers;
(3) "Urban Poor" refers to those residing in urban and
urbanizable slum or blighted areas, with or without the
benefit of security of abode, where the income of the
head of the family cannot afford in a sustained manner
to provide for the family's basic needs of food, health,
education, housing, and other essentials in life;
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