Agrarian reform

Group 6
Angelica Ramirez
Jielyn Quibuyen
Yani Castro
Louie Imperial
Carlo Jay Salvador
Jhonathan Santos
 POLICIES OF
AGRARIAN REFORM
Agrarian Reform
 Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to
government-initiated or government-backed
redistribution of agricultural land (see land
reform) or, broadly, to an overall redirection
of the agrarian system of the country, which
often includes land reform measures.
Agrarian reform can include credit measures,
training, extension, land consolidations, etc.
Agricultural land
 Agricultural land is typically land devoted to
agriculture, the systematic and controlled use
of other forms of life particularly the rearing
of livestock and production of crops to
produce food for humans. It is thus generally
synonymous with both farmland or cropland,
as well as pasture or rangeland.
Agrarian system
 An agrarian system is the dynamic set of
economic and technological factors that
affect agricultural practices. It is premised on
the idea that different systems have
developed depending on the natural and
social conditions specific to a particular
region. Political factors also have a bearing on
an agrarian system due to issues such as land
ownership, labor organization, and forms of
cultivation.
Land consolidation
 Land consolidation is a planned readjustment
and rearrangement of fragmented land
parcels and their ownership. It is usually
applied to form larger and more rational land
holdings. Land consolidation can be used to
improve rural infrastructure and to implement
developmental and environmental policies
(improving environmental sustainability and
agriculture).
Why it is important to the Philippines
 Agrarian Reform is very significant for the
economy of any country because more than
half of the population is employed in the
agricultural sector. Agriculture is the main
source of livelihood especially for the
developing countries. Reforms are important
because they protect the rights of the farmers
.
 Landownership in the
Philippines under Spain
Landownership in the
Philippines under the
Americans
AMERICAN ERA (1896-1935)
 PHILIPPINE BILL OF 1902
 TORRENT SYSTEM OF LAND REGISTARATION
 LAND REGISTRATION ACT OF 1902 OR ACT

NO.490
 CADASTRAL ACT OR ACT NO.2259
 HOMESTE
 SECOND PUBLIC LAND ACT OF 1919 OR ACT

NO.2874
 ACT NO.141 AMENDED ACT NO.7874
 FRIAR LAND ACT OR ACT NO.1120
 RICE SHARE TENENCY ACT OF 1933 OR ACT

NO.4054
 SUGARCANE TENENCY CONTRACT ACT OF

1933 OR ACT NO.4113

 GROUPS OF PEASANTS UPROSE HEADED BY

COLORUM & SAKDALISTAO OF LUZON &

NORTHEASTERN MINDANAO
 THE UPROSE RESULT TO THE BIRTH OR

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

NO.4054
COMMOWEALTH YEARS
 LAND LORDS BECOME RICHER AND

POWERFUL
 TENANTS WERE DEPRIVED OF THEIR RIGHTS
 HACIENDAS WERE POORLY & UNJUSTLY

MANAGE
 PEASANTS UPRISING BECAME WIDESPREAD

ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

 GOVERNMENT SOLUTION WAS:

- PURCHASING OF PRIARS LAND

- PROPERLY IMPLEMENTATION OF
HOMESTEAD PROGRAM
 POST-WAR
INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS
AGRARIAN REFORM
President Manuel Roxas
 Republic Act No. 34 — 70-30 sharing
arrangement between tenant and landlords
President Elpidio Quirino
 Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO) established to accelerate and
expand the resettlement program for
peasants.

 This agency later on became the National

Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA) under President
Ramon Magsaysay.
President Ramon Magsaysay
 Republic Act No. 1199 or Agricultural
Tenancy Act — to govern the relationship
between landholders and tenant farmers,
protecting tenurial rights of tenants and
enforced tenancy practices.
 Court of Agricultural Relations (1955)
 Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing

Administration (ACCFA) — to provide

warehouse facilities and assist farmers in
marketing their products.
President Diosdado Macapagal
 Father of Agrarian Reform

 Agricultural Land Reform Code (R.A. 3844) —

It abolished tenancy and established a
leasehold system in which farmers paid fixed
rentals to landlords, rather than a percentage
of harvest.
Primary Source: Declaration of
Policy under R.A. No. 3844
or Agricultural Land Reform Code
Section 2. Declaration of Policy — It is
the policy of the State:
(1) To establish owner- cultivatorship and the economic
family-size farm as the basis of Philippine
agriculture and, as a consequence, divert landlord
capital in agriculture to industrial development;

(2) To achieve a dignified existence for the small

farmers free from pernicious institutional restraints and
practices;

(3) To create a truly viable social and economic

structure in agriculture conductive to greater
productivity and higher farm income;
(4) To apply all labor laws equally and without
discrimination to both industrial and agricultural
wage earners;

(5) To provide a more vigorous and systematic

land resettlement program and public land
distribution; and

(6) To make the small farmers more independent,

self-reliant and responsible citizens, and a source
of genuine strength in our democratic society.
Agrarian reform efforts
under marcos
Proclamation No. 1081 on
September 21, 1972

Five days after the proclamation of Martial Law,

the entire country was proclaimed a land reform
area and simultaneously the Agrarian Reform
Program was decreed.
President Marcos enacted the following
laws:
 Republic Act No. 6389, (Code of Agrarian
Reform) and RA No. 6390 of 1971

 Presidential Decree No. 2, September 26,

1972

 Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21, 1972