The shift from subsistence to entrepreneurial agriculture.

2. Agriculture
and
Social Entrepreneurship
Ernest Asence III
Agricultural Technician I
City Agriculture Office
LGU Naga City

3. Dysfunctional
environment, congestion

4. Poverty,
lack of opportunities

6. Insecurity,
rising crime rates

7. Solid waste management

8. FOOD ISSUES IN THE PHILIPPINES
• The Philippines is largely an agricultural
country.
• Agriculture and agribusiness constitute the
backbone of Philippine economy.
• Food scarcity and lack of access to food in
adequate quantities and of nutritional
value are widespread.

9. • Agribusiness accounts for 71% of the
country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
while primary agriculture and fisheries
contribute about 21%.
• Despite the seeming agricultural
abundance, the Philippines is locked in a
chronic food crisis and food security is
central issue.

10. What makes
“social
entrepreneurship”
different?

11. Innovative
(how is your idea
unique?)

12. Sustainable
(how will it exist for
years to come?)

13. Scalable
(how will the idea
grow and replicate?)

14. “Social entrepreneurs are not
content to just give a fish nor
teach someone how to fish.
They will not rest until they have
revolutionized the fishing
industry.”
- Bill Drayton

15. Three Systems of the Economy

16. How t he 3 syst ems work

17. Agriculture

18. Majority of the poor are in rural
areas :
11.65 million (mostly in
agriculture)

19. Lack of access to wealth
creating assets
Land
Capital
Technology
Market

20. Low priority against urban
based enterprises, e.g.
services, manufacturing

21. What we can do
CHANGE and
CREATE

22. CHANGE
• use & protect our natural
resources
• nourish our families
• develop our communities
• meet the needs of society

23. CREATE
• ways to solve problems & create
value
• ways to do business
• jobs, products & services
• wealth

24. Agricultural Entrepreneurship is
geared towards three objectives:
Productivity
Efficiency
Sustainability

25. Agricultural
Entrepreneurship Trends
Urban Agriculture/Urban
Container Gardening
Integrated Farming System
Organic Farming
Agri Tourism

26. Urban Agriculture/

27. Urban Container Gardening

29. Benefits of Urban Agriculture
• Sense of fulfillment for producing the food
that they eat
• Transformed sensitivity at their environment
as it will now mean a source of what
they eat to nourish their body
• Sense of being well as their undefined
restlessness will find assuring calm in
tending gardens that produce food they need.

30. • Desire to grow more and raise more food as
they seem tastier and more nutritious aside
from the fact that they are safe from toxic
chemicals
• Changed regard to discarded materials, refuse,
rains, sunlight, air, soil, and degradable wastes
to something that can be used beneficially for
production of the food that can be readily
brought to the dining table without much
expense

33. Integrated Farming System

34. Organic
Agriculture

35. Principles of Organic Agriculture
• The Principle of Health - Organic Agriculture
should sustain and enhance the health of soil,
plant, animal and human as one and
indivisible.
• The Principle of Ecology - Organic Agriculture
should be based on living ecological systems
and cycles, work with them, emulate them
and help sustain them.

36. • The Principle of Fairness - Organic Agriculture
should build on relationships that ensure
fairness with regard to the common
environment and life opportunities.
• The Principle of Care - Organic Agriculture
should be managed in a precautionary and
responsible manner to protect the health and
well being of current and future generations
and the environment.

37. Issue of Genetic Diversity

40. Agri Tourism