CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITION AND TERMS

Reform
Land Reform
Agrarian Reform
o Agricultural Tenancy
o Share Tenancy
o Leasehold Tenancy
o Amortizing Owner
o Full Owner or Owner-Cultivator

 R.A. No. 6839

Share tenant to leaseholder
Leaseholder to amortizing owner and;
From amortizing owner to full owner
(owner cultivator)
Amortizing owner by operation of law
(P.D. No. 27)
Emancipation patent
LBP (Land Bank of the Philippines)
- Register of Deeds

 Owner-Cultivator
- Agrarian Reform Law of the
Philippines (CARL of 1988)
- Certificate of Land Ownership
Award (CLOA) under R.A. No. 6657
- Torrens system
Production Structure
Structure for Supporting Services

AGRARIAN REFORM AND

RELIGION

You must not displace your neighbors

boundary mark, set by your forebears,
in the inheritance you receive in the
land Yahweh is giving into your
possession
In so far as you neglected to do this
to the least of your brethren, you
neglected to do it to me

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Even before the Spaniards came into
these Islands, the idea of private ownership
of land was not prevalent. Anymore than
the government had made any serious
effort to put more teeth in strengthening
the tenurial rights of tenants to their
landholdings. While some areas in Pampanga
were privately owned by a large, land was
commonly owned by the community or
barangay. It was the main source of wealth
and was cultivated communally or
individually by members of the barangay.

When the Spaniards came in1521,

common ownership of land slowly
took the backseat, and private
property became dominant. From 1571
to 1610, Spanish colonizers purchased
communal lands through the barangay
headmen who represented the natives.
oEncomienda system
encomienda
Encomendero
Encomienda

CONSTITUTIONAL
MANDATES ON AGRARIAN
REFORM

Art. II, Declaration of Principles and

State Policies
Sec. 9
Sec.21
Art. III, Bill of Rights
Sec.9
Art. X, Local Government
Sec.7

 Art. XII, National Economy and

Patrimony
Sec.1
Sec. 2
Sec. 3

 ARTICLE XIII SOCIAL JUSTICE AND

HUMAN RIGHTS
SECTION 4
SECTION 5
SECTION 6
SECTION 8
ARTICLE XVIII TRANSITORY
PROVISIONS
SECTION 22

CONTEMPORANEOUS
PRECEPTS AND MEASURES
Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 ( R.A.
No 6657) signed into law on June 10,
1988 and took effect on June 15, 1988.
R.A. No 3844
R.A. No 6389
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 27
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 228
EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 229

LAND REFORM MEASURES

RETRACED
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Philippine Bill (1902)
Land Registration Act (1902)
Friar Lands Act (1903)
Rice Share Tenancy Act (Public Act No.
4054)
Commonwealth Act No. 278 of 1938
Sugar cane Tenancy Contracts Act (Act
No. 4113)
Commonwealth Act No. 103

 Commonwealth Act No.213

Commonwealth Act No.178
Republic Act No.34
Republic Act No.1160
Republic Act No.1199
Land Reform Act (R.A. No. 1400, 1955)
Republic Act No.1267
Republic Act No.3844 ( The
Agricultural Land Reform Code)
Republic Act No.6389 (Code of
Agrarian Reforms)

 Agrarian Reform Special Fund Act (R.A. No.

6390)
known as a companion measure to R.A.
No. 6389
support for the implementation of the
agrarian reform program
Presidential Decree No. 2
President Ferdinand Marcos
Martial law, September 21, 1972
Presidential Decree No. 27
-President Marcos signed P.D. No 27
declared the whole country as a land
reform area

October 21, 1972 all tenant-farmers

whether in land classified as landed
estate or not shall be deemed owner of
a portion constituting a family size farm
5 hectares if not irrigated
3 hectares if irrigated
7 cultivating or will cultivate
Proclamation No. 131
CARP
Executive Order No. 228
landownership to qualified
beneficiaries covered by P.D. No. 27

 determining the value remaining unvalued

rice and corn lands
farmer-beneficiaries and mode of
compensation to the landowner

Executive Order No. 229

PARC
executive order were adopted in R.A. No.
6657
primary law of agrarian reform

Executive Order No. 129

DAR organized under R.A. No. 3844 as a
government machinery

 special feature of this issuance is the

creation of the agrarian reform
adjudication

Republic Act No. 6657

agrarian reform law of 1988
June 15, 1988
operation covers all public and private
agricultural lands, regardless of tenurial
arrangement
including other lands of the public
domain suitable for agriculture