For young Filipinos, #futureofwork is farming

AGRICULTURE used to be thought of as a heritage vocation, work that's passed on to the next generation along with the inheritance of land and property. For the unlanded, farming is an obligation to take on big responsibilities and hard labor with minimum benefits and low returns.

While it is not an exaggeration to say that all of human life and civilization rests upon the shoulders of farmers, it is a dismal to note that the predominant notion is that work in agriculture cannot bring families out of poverty. It is such an incongruity that farming is associated with intergenerational poverty when without farmers, there will be no food on the table at all.