President Benigno Aquino 3rd can help make farmer-beneficiaries in his family-owned Hacienda Luisita become productive so they can help solve the country’s food security problems, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, said on Friday.

Although Hacienda Luisita has been distributed to its beneficiaries, Elver noted that the government has not given them the needed resources such as seeds, water, credit and technological training to cultivate their land.

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