By: Legislative Research and Statistics Division Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance Department of Agrarian Reform
By: Legislative Research and Statistics Division Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance Department of Agrarian Reform
By: Legislative Research and Statistics Division Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance Department of Agrarian Reform
1935 Constitution
- "The promotion of social justice to ensure the well-being and economic
security of all people should be the concern of the State."
Executive Order No. 355 Creating the Land Settlement and Development
Corporation and Dissolving the National Land Settlement Administration, the
Rice and Corn Production Administration and the Machinery and Equipment
Department of the National Development Company
- Replaced the National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA) with the
Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) which took over
the responsibilities of the Agricultural Machinery Equipment Corporation
and the Rice and Corn Production Administration
- Created the Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO) on
October 23, 1950 to accelerate the resettlement program which was
launched shortly before World War II
Republic Act No. 1160 (NARRA Law) An Act to Further Implement the Free
Distribution of Agricultural Lands of the Public Domain as Provided for In CA
691, As Amended, to Abolish the Land Settlement and Development
Corporation Created Under EO 355, and to Create in Its Place the National
Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration, and for Other Purposes
- Abolished the Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO)
and created in its place the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Administration (NARRA)
- The NARRA was established in order to hasten free distribution of
agricultural lands of the public domain to landless tenants and farmworkers
- It was particularly aimed at the peasant base of the HUK movement (Hukbo
ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon HUKBALAHAP)
- It was successful in attracting farmers-turned-rebels to a peaceful life by
giving them homelots and farms in NARRA settlements in Palawan and in
some parts of Mindanao
Republic Act No. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954) An Act to
Govern the Relations Between Landholders and Tenants of Agricultural Lands
(Leasehold and Share Tenancy)
- The first land reform law which regulated all forms and aspects of tenure
relations, except civil lease
- It gave share tenants the right to shift to leasehold where they pay
landowners a fixed rental instead of a variable share
- This law also provided security of tenure to tenants by prohibiting the
ejectment of tenants unless the Court of Agrarian Relations found just cause
- The law also allowed the purchase or expropriation of private lands to be
subdivided and resold to tenants at cost
- This law created the Court of Agrarian Relations (CAR)
1987 Constitution (Article II, Section 21) "The State shall promote
comprehensive rural development and agrarian reform"
Executive Order No. 228 (Declaring Full Land Ownership to Qualified Farmer
Beneficiaries Covered by Presidential Decree No. 27; Determining the Value
of Remaining Unvalued Rice and Corn Lands Subject to P.D. No. 27; and
Providing for the Manner of Payment by the Farmer Beneficiary and Mode of
Compensation to the Landowner)
- Declared full landownership to qualified farmer-beneficiaries covered by
P.D. No. 27
- Determined the value of remaining unvalued rice and corn land subject to
P.D. No. 27
- Provided for the manner of payment by the FB and mode of compensation
to the landowner
Executive Order No. 405 (Vesting in the Land Bank of the Philippines the
Primary Responsibility to Determine the Land Valuation and Compensation for
All Lands Covered Under Republic Act No. 6657, Known as the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988)
- Vested in the Land Bank of the Philippines the primary responsibility for
land valuation
Executive Order No. 448 (Amending Executive Order No. 407, Series of 1990,
Entitled, "Accelerating the Acquisition and Distribution of Agricultural Lands,
Pasture Lands, Fishponds, Agro-Forestry Lands and Other Lands of Public
Domain Suitable for Agriculture")
- Amended Executive Order No. 407, series of 1990, providing that:
"All lands or portions thereof reserved by virtue of Presidential
proclamations for specific public uses by the government, its agencies
and instrumentalities, including government-owned or controlled
corporations suitable for agriculture and no longer actually, directly and
exclusively used or necessary for the purposes for which they have been
reserved, as determined by the Department of Agrarian Reform in
coordination with the government agency or instrumentality concerned in
whose favor the reservation was established, shall be segregated from
the reservation and transferred to the Department of Agrarian Reform for
distribution to qualified beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program."
Executive Order No. 506 (Further Amending Executive Order No. 407, Series
of 1990, as Amended By Executive Order No. 448, Series of 1991, Accelerating
the Acquisition and Distribution of Agricultural Lands, Pasture Lands,
Fishponds, Agro-Forestry Lands and Other Lands of Public Domain Suitable
for Agriculture)
- It declared that except national parks and other protected areas, all lands or
portions of the public domain reserved by virtue of proclamation or law for
specific purposes or uses by departments, bureaus, offices and agencies of
the Government, which are suitable for agriculture and no longer actually,
directly and exclusively used or necessary for the purpose for which they
have been reserved as determined by the Department of Agrarian Reform
in coordination with the government agency or instrumentality concerned in
whose favor the reservation was established, shall be segregated from the
reservation and transferred to the Department of Agrarian Reform for
distribution to qualified beneficiaries under the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Program.
- It also provided that all existing and proposed National Parks, Game Refuge
and Bird Sanctuaries, Wildlife Reserves, Wilderness Areas and Other
Protected Areas, including old growth or virgin forests, and all forests above
1,000 meters elevation or above 50 percent slope, are hereby excluded from
the present segregation, acquisition and distribution procedures being
conducted by the Department of Agrarian Reform until such time as these
area shall have been identified, studied and determined to be either retained
and reclassified under the National Integrated Protected Areas System of
DENR or to be segregated for agricultural purposes.
Republic Act No. 7881 (An Act Amending Certain Provisions of Republic Act
No. 6657, Entitled "An Act Instituting a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program to Promote Social Justice and Industrialization, Providing the
Mechanism for Its Implementation, and for Other Purposes")
- Amended certain provisions of Republic Act No. 6657, more significantly
Section 10 thereof on exemptions and exclusions from CARP, to wit:
1. Lands actually, directly or exclusively used for parks and wildlife,
forest reserves, reforestation, fish sanctuaries and breeding
grounds, watersheds and mangroves;
2. Private lands actually, directly or exclusively used for prawn farms
and fishponds: Provided, That said prawn farms and fishponds have
not been distributed and Certificate of Land Ownership Award
(CLOA) issued to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) under CARP;
and
3. Lands actually, directly and exclusively used and found to be
necessary for sites and institutions, and all lands with 18% slope and
over, except those already developed.
Republic Act No. 7905 (An Act to Strengthen the Implementation of the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, and for Other Purposes)
- It aimed to strengthen the implementation of the CARP by amending certain
provisions of Republic Act No. 6657, particularly the provisions on the
creation of support services office (Section 35), funding for support services
(Section 36), Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee (Section
44) and province-by-province implementation of CARP (Section 45).
Republic Act No. 8532 (An Act Strengthening Further the Comprehensive
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), By Providing Augmentation Fund Therefor,
Amending for the Purpose Section 63 of Republic Act No. 6657, Otherwise
Known as "The CARP Law of 1988")
- It authorized the appropriation of an additional amount of not more than P50
billion needed to implement the CARP until year 2008
- It provided for yearly appropriations of not less than P3 billion from the
General Appropriations Act