For agriculture stakeholders, the hope that the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) provided for agriculture transformation is turning into despair—and even anger. During the May 9 'Bantay RCEP, Buy Pilipino' assembly initiated by the 131 organizations that signed a Jan. 31 document opposing RCEP, two constructive advocacies were discussed. The first, Bantay RCEP, was to determine how the implementation of the trade deal could be monitored so that conditionalities in favor of agriculture would result in protection of the sector.

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