ILAW symbolizes Integrated Land and Agri Workers as established and duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 26 June 2013 and listed under the Department of Labor and Employment. Pio Del Pilar, Makati City
With attendance of legal documents, ILAW set out to immediately organize its pioneering Regional Chapters in Baras, Rizal, Malaybalay,Bukidnon, and Zambales. To date
, 16 more charter-member organized Peoples Organization (POs), situated in 12 critically denuded, degraded, and threatened upland/lowland, including coastal regions of the country, define ILAW following and landscape of in-place land-based farm and labor productivity for poverty alleviation and protection of ecology. Sectoral Representation: Marginalized integrated (up/low, coastal) land and agricultural workers, peasantry labor force, indigenous communities/IPs, and generally rurban poor. prescription of what is “integrated land and agri workers, incorporated.”
ILAW, Inc. advocacy for marginalized sector it represents propels the promotion of fundamental social equity rights, prerogatives, privileges, and capacitation through proffered provision of strategic, appropriate policy(ies) with IRRs, technical/R&D programs, and training/skills intervention modules toward social, economic, environment-ecology, development, sustainability, and security or SEEDS-S, underlying its vision-mission agenda, as guided by the Regalian Doctrine, adherence to Democracy & Democratic Governance Principles, and PD 910. The driving, strategic bottomline is the synergistic empowerment essentially of core, integrated, (i.e., the natural conglomeration of diverse land-based labor force , resultantly unified by similar or paralleling non-productive or under productive working conditions and circumstance as predominated by the agricultural workers/peasantry class, equally pre-determined or shaped by given and existing geo-physical configuration of Philippine environment and natural resources epitomizing a dominant land-based, agri-agroforestry working population landscape and concomitant agri-agroforestry production, potential agri-agroforestry manufacturing, industries ,trade, and commerce business paradigms). The peasantry labor class would include the Indigenous peoples (IPs), equally needing welfare promotion by Philippine Constitution and Labor Code mandates, the rurban poor, and expansive ILAW, Inc. chapter and charter member communities as special, specific cases of over-riding poverty and immediate development intervention assistance responded to all essentially in their non-productive or under-productive, hence, marginalized states, as overall common denominator. Their collective deprivation beg concomitant sectoral corporate social responsibility attention toward introduced rehabilitative, innovative farming livelihood production and industry aimed at inclusive local green economic growth and expansive development contributing to nation building and welfare, global economic competitiveness, sustainability, and security describing/qualifying quality of life of said predominantly land and agri-based Filipino working population, to start with.
