ACTIVITY 1: Give your own perception about the questions listed below.

1. What is Agrarian Reform?

- the redistribution of lands to farmers and regular farmworkers who are landless, regardless of
crops or fruits produced, and regardless of tenurial arrangement, to include the totality of factors
and support services designed to lift the beneficiaries' economic status, as well as all other
arrangements alternative to the physical redistribution of lands, such as production or profit-
sharing, labor administration, and the distribution of shares of stocks, which will allow benefits
to be realized.
2. How land reform affect agriculture?
- Landholding may be affected in at least three ways by such reform: it may strengthen security
of tenure and therefore incentives; it may reorganize the inheritance system in favor of offspring;
and it may bring land onto the market, allowing for land transactions.
3. What is the purpose of land reform?
- All land reforms emphasize the need to improve the peasants' social conditions and status, to
alleviate poverty, and to redistribute income and wealth in their favour.
4. What is the difference between agrarian reform and land reform?
-  Land reform is a term that was used earlier to bring about changes in the ownership of land, in
rural areas. Land reform was initiated by governments to achieve their social and political
objectives and also to bring about changes in the lives of the poor landless peasants. Agrarian
reform includes land reform and also addresses education and training of farmers for better
produce and marketing, rural credit, easier access to markets, and so on.

5. What are the reasons that lead to the land conflict in the Philippines?
- The majority of people have remained as tenants, farm workers and landless agricultural
laborer’s, a factor that has contributed to the poverty in the countryside. Land conflict stems
mainly from agrarian disputes brought about by the prevailing agrarian situation