• What is the agrarian reform of the Philippines?

- The CARP covered all public and private agricultural lands regardless of the crops planted. It also included
public domain lands that were suitable for agriculture. It sought to redistribute land not only to farmers and
farm workers but also to other landless poor.

• What are the benefits of agrarian reform and who will benefit from these?
- Agrarian reform not only distribute land to concern fairly land ownership but also optimize land uses to
improve people income [1]. Fairly land ownership reduces land conflict. It's hoped that non conflict land and
certainty of ownership increase land productivity.

• What is the impact of agrarian reform on poverty?

- Compared to non agrarian reform beneficiaries, agrarian reform beneficiaries tend to have higher incomes
and lower poverty incidence. Moreover, complementary inputs such as irrigation, credit and government
services tend to increase the chances of farmer beneficiaries to be nonpoor.

• What is the most significant agrarian reform law in the Philippines and why?
- Republic Act No. 6657, June 10, 1988 (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law) – An act which became
effective June 15, 1988 and instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform program to promote social justice
and industrialization providing the mechanism for its implementation and for other purposes.
• What was the importance of agrarian reform?
- Poverty and hunger induce the rural poor to deplete land and forest resources. If landlessness is not
corrected, the rural poor are likely to remain poor for most of their lives, to pass on their poverty to their
children and grandchildren, and to die of easily preventable diseases.

• Why is it important to discuss agrarian reform especially in the Philippines?

- Agrarian Reform has contributed to improvement of the socio- economic conditions of landless farmers and
political development of the Philippines in terms of engaging the landless in the process of policy making and
distribution of large private landholdings to the landless.

• What is the purpose of agrarian reform?

- The agrarian reform aimed at modernizing the feudal structure of southern agriculture, by expropriating
the most unproductive portions of the large estates (latifundia) and redistributing them to landless peasants
in the form of small holdings.

• How is agrarian reform law different from land reform?

- A situation of 'agrarian' reform covers not only a wide redistribution of land but also the provision of
infrastructure, services and, sometimes, a whole program of redistributive and democratic reforms. 'Land'
reform refers to a narrower redistribution of land, usually to a limited group of beneficiaries.
• What are the current issues about agrarian reform in the Philippines?
- Hermitanio said one of the main issues of the agrarian reform program is that the land given to farmers “is
not free.” Under the program, each beneficiary is only entitled to a 1.2-hectare piece of land, which
Hermitanio said “is too small.”

• Who are the beneficiaries of the agrarian reform?

- Agrarian Reform Beneficiary refers to farmers who were granted lands under Presidential Decree No. 27, the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law and Republic Act No.

• What is the function of the Department of Agrarian Reform?

- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) leads the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program (CARP) through land tenure improvement, agrarian justice, and coordinated delivery of essential
support services to client-beneficiaries.

• Why is agrarian reform important for the farmers?

- The agrarian reform contributed to relieve the unemployment pressure and to increase agricultural
production and productivity, although it could not prevent a massive exodus of rural population from the
mountains and the most marginal areas

• What is the primary reason why agrarian reforms in the Philippines failed?
- Marcos' land reform failed because of a number of flaws, including: the "severely limited" coverage; the high
retention limit of 7 ha, which applied even to absentee property owners; the burdensome process of obtaining
land; and the lack of support services (Reyes, 2001).
• What is the main reason why the Philippines continue to have agrarian land issues?
- Land in the Philippines is overexploited due to two simultaneous trends: population growth and land
degradation.

• What is the best agrarian reform that was implemented in the Philippines?
- Republic Act No. 6657, June 10, 1988 (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law) – An act which became effective
June 15, 1988 and instituted a comprehensive agrarian reform program to promote social justice and
industrialization providing the mechanism for its implementation and for other purposes.

• Who was considered the father of agrarian reform?

- Diosdado Macapagal Diosdado Macapagal (1961-1965) Why President Diosdado Macapagal was considered
the “Father of Agrarian Reform”? It was during his term that the Agricultural Land Reform Code or RA No. 3844
was enacted on August 8, 1963.

• What is the Department of Agrarian Reform for?

- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is in charge of the direction and coordination of the national
agrarian reform program. The DAR also formulates and enacts policies, plans, and programs for the distribution
and cultivation of all agricultural lands.
• Is agrarian reform program a success or a failure?
- The rise of an agrarian reform movement has significantly contributed to the partial success of the
government's agrarian reform programme. But the government has not been able to tap the full
potential of this movement to push for faster and more meaningful agrarian reform on Sep 16.

• What are the duties and responsibilities of DAR?

- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) leads the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program (CARP) through land tenure improvement, agrarian justice, and coordinated delivery of
essential support services to client-beneficiaries.

• What are the benefits of agrarian reform and who will benefit from these?
- Agrarian reform not only distribute land to concern fairly land ownership but also optimize land uses to
improve people income [1]. Fairly land ownership reduces land conflict. It's hoped that non conflict land
and certainty of ownership increase land productivity.

• What is agrarian reform and why this should be implemented?

- Basically, agrarian reforms are measures that aim at changing power relations. By abolishing large landed
property and feudal production systems, the rural population should be appeased and integrated into
society, and this would contribute to the political stability of the country.
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