PROHIBITED ACTS AND PRACTICES Sample Clauses

PROHIBITED ACTS AND PRACTICES. Section 1. The Parties shall prohibit the conversion of agricul- tural land devoted to food production, unless the crops are to be processed for use in national industries such as chemicals, phar- maceutical and rubber products under regulation according to the national socioeconomic plan. Section 2. The Parties shall suspend, review and, as necessary, reverse policies or programs that allow the conversion of agricul- tural lands into so-called industrial estates, urban-housing estates and subdivisions, tourist resorts, golf courses, and the cultivation of export and biofuel crops. Agricultural lands that have been con- verted shall be returned as much as possible to agricultural use. Section 3. The Parties shall stop rampant and indiscriminate farmland reclassification and conversion to real estate develop- ment, tourism, mining and special economic zones by speculators and giant property developers. Section 4. The Parties shall end crop conversion and destruc- tive land reclamation. Crop conversion facilitates the setting up or further expansion of local and multinational export-oriented agri- business plantations, which exacerbates rural land dispossession, intensifies the exploitation of agricultural workers, and undermines national food security. Section 5. The Parties shall take measures to prevent the pollu- Section 6. The Parties shall combat, prohibit and eliminate usury and other exploitative practices in the trading of agricultural inputs and produce through: a) Encouraging the peasant masses to keep personal savings; b) Encouraging the peasant association to operate as a coop- erative association in order to accumulate savings and other income; c) Lowering the interest on loans to 50 percent of the existing rate as an initial step and subsequently lowered continuously until this becomes only slightly higher than the prevailing rate charged by banks; and d) Cancelling all unjust debts and recomputing old debts as far back as five (5) years according to the rates set (only slightly higher than the prevailing rate charged by ▇▇▇▇▇) with the agreement of the general assembly of the peasant association. Section 7. The Parties shall prohibit and stop exploitative trad- ing practices (e.g. price manipulation and resicada system) and ensure that farmers, farm workers, fisherfolk, and workers in farms and fisheries get fair buying prices for their products. Section 8. The Parties shall strictly prohibit the construction and establishment of military cam...