Four General Land Use Policy Areas

1.       Settlement

Settlements are areas where concentrations of population engage in economic, political, cultural, and other social activities. Settlements Development focuses on the spatial distribution of shelter, infrastructure and networks, and services. It is also concerned with the interrelationships of settlements as they develop and establish functional linkages based on their respective resource endowments and comparative advantages.

The primary concerns of Settlements Development are to help ensure, for the present and future generations of Filipinos:

(a) an effective integration of activities within and among settlements, allowing efficient production and movement of people and commodities through the provision of appropriate land, infrastructure, and facilities; and

(b) the access of the population to housing, education, health care, recreation, transportation and communication, sanitation, and basic utilities such as water, power, waste disposal and other services.

Reference: National Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 5

2.       Production

Production Land Use refers to the direct and indirect utilization of land resources for crop production, fishery, livestock and poultry production, timber production, agroforestry, mining, industry, and tourism.

The primary objective of planning for Production Land Use is to determine the most efficient and equitable manner of utilizing and managing land resources such that there is adequate and accessible space for sustainable food production, forest and mineral resource extraction, industry, and tourism, with the end in view of meeting the material and other requirements of the population.

The physical planning issues and concerns are grouped into four categories: food security, levels of production and productivity, industrialization, and environmental impacts.

Reference: National Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 7-8

3.       Protection

Protection Land Use refers to the rehabilitation, conservation, and management of sensitive/critical ecosystems to preserve their integrity, to allow degraded resources to regenerate, and to protect the human population from environmental hazards.

Protection Land Use policy guidelines seek to achieve environmental stability and ecological integrity; ensure balance between resource use and the preservation of some educational, cultural and historical significance and protect people and man-made structures from the ill effects of natural hazards. They cover the following protected areas: NIPAS, non-NIPAS and hazard-prone areas.

There are four major physical planning issues/concerns within Protection Land Use:

(a) non-demarcation of boundaries of protection areas;

(b) conflict resolution within protection areas;

(c) disaster mitigation, use of resources and its impact on protection areas; and

(d) information, education and communication campaign.

Reference: National Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 10

4.       Infrastructure

The role of infrastructure in national development is to provide the built-up environment that allows production, consumption, and service activities to take place. Infrastructure development in the NFPP covers five subsectors: transportation, communications, energy, water resources, and social infrastructure. Its basic concerns are the provision of basic services, fostering economic and other forms of integration necessary for producing or obtaining the material requirements of Filipinos, and the development of an efficient, responsive, safe, and ecologically friendly built environment.

           

                Reference: National Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 11-12

Can areas in the forest land both have protection and production management prescription? Explain your

answer.

Yes, both forest’s protection and production areas can have management prescription because there is a need for these areas to be both preserved based on their uses. The main focus of the management prescription is to preserve the delineation or their respective boundaries. The policy is to develop the production areas into viable area for agroforestry and even for eco-tourism, timber production and other special uses where people in the area will be sustained with their livelihoods or economic needs. With this, people will no longer encroach into the protected forestland and conduct some illegal activities like illegal logging, kaingin, hunting of wildlife and other forms of forest degradation.

In formulating forest land use planning, it is important that the area and the management system for both production and forestland should be properly evaluated so that the best and sustainable use of the land will be ensured.

3. Is there such a thing as protected agriculture (both protection and production management prescription)?

Provide concrete location and examples.

Yes, there is such thing as protected agriculture. This also referred to as prime agricultural land which must protected because these are very fertile and productive. Protection here means, the area is irrigated and cannot be converted into other uses. Both protection and production management prescription should be present in order to ensure that the needs of the people are sustainably addressed. Under RA 8435, this is called as the Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-industrial Development (NPAAAD).

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