WITH an average farm size of just over a hectare and an average education of a farmer no higher than an elementary graduate, the Philippines virtually has a peasant-based agricultural economy. Yet, we have placed the burden of ensuring the country's food security on the back of the peasantry.

But what is peasant-based agriculture? Or in Marxist terms, the peasant mode of production?

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