Sustainability of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER)

in the municipality of Nasugbu, Batangas: an Assessment based on Agrarian Reform

Beneficiaries and Department of Agrarian Reform

Researchers:

BOCO, Eva Joy C.

DELA CRUZ, Ma. Clarissa M.

Thesis Adviser:

Asst. Prof. Edmund S. Tayao, M.A.

This thesis looks at the impacts of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension
with Reforms (CARPER) to the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) of Nasugbu, Batangas.
The said program is an extension of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which
was signed by former President Cory Aquino on the 10th of June, 1988. This program mandates
the Department of Agrarian Reform to distribute 7.8 hectares of land to qualified Agrarian Reform
Beneficiaries (ARBs) throughout the country. The government claims that they already acquired
and distributed 6.9 hectares of land, equivalent to 88% of the total land subjected to the law, as of
2013. The researchers would investigate the sustainability of the program by looking at how it
impacted the land and economic development of ARBs in Western Batangas by conducting a
survey to the ARBs of the municipality of Nasugbu. This study will also investigate the efficiency
of the DAR in giving support services to the ARBs after the distribution of land by conducting an
interview to the official in-charge of the support services in DAR-Batangas. The researchers aim
to formulate conclusion about the sustainability of the program and give recommendations that
will help both the ARBs and DAR towards the realization of the objectives of the program.

Keywords: CARPER, agrarian reform, land reform, program evaluation, agriculture