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    For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.

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    For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.

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    For a long time, land in the Philippines was primarily owned by wealthy landlords. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was established to distribute agricultural lands over 5 hectares to landless farmers. This helped many farmers gain land ownership and improve their livelihoods. However, CARP faced challenges including unclear land distribution policies, frequent changes in leadership at the Department of Agrarian Reform, and slow implementation due to legal challenges from resisting landlords. Corruption also undermined the program by allowing officials to side with landowners over farmers' rights.

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    For a long, period of time, Philippine land was owned by

    the private sectors. This started during the Spanish regime


    when the land was primarily owned by the large landlords and
    friars. The farmers found it hard to acquire during that time
    because the only basis for ownership is ancestral domain ship.
    Agrarian rights were established during the American
    occupation, but only few initiatives were given and the rich
    families still continue ton lands in the Philippines.
    In the year 1988 the Philippines' National Agrarian
    Reform Program - Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
    - which was later termed as Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
    Extension with Reforms (CARPER), aimed to distribute all
    agricultural lands beyond five hectares to landless farmers
    and farm workers.
    It was such a great help to the farmers for they will be
    given the chance to own a land. Lots of our farmers have
    managed to improve their land tenure, the betterment of the
    farmers who were abused by their landlords and were deprived to own
    the land that was rightfully theirs. The Department of Agrarian
    Reform has the task of implementing this program, improved
    their socio-economic conditions, sent their children to
    colleges and universities to become urban professionals and
    avoid the gruesome work on the land, and retired to become
    managers of the farms that they got under the Comprehensive
    Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
    On the other hand, the cons of this program were more
    than what it can offer. First, the CARP is a defective law
    devoid of unclear policies on land valuations and transfers.
    There was no clear-cut policies regarding the transfer of
    certificate of titles of the distributed lands in the farmers.
    Moreover, expediencies on acquiring lands from the landlords
    were not explained well which makes this procedure difficult
    to implement.
    Second, DAR has changed secretaries often which made it
    difficult for the success of the program. For every president
    elected, cabinet secretaries were replaced more than once
    which makes it hard for the present secretary to conduct a
    continuous plan for agrarian reforms. Moreover, this event
    leads to the interruption of the current administration's
    momentum of doing such projects.
    Third, there is a slow implementation of this program due
    to two main reasons. One is that since our country has a
    democratic system of government, everyone is entitled to
    undergo due process. A farmer who has a complaint against his
    or her landlord must go to the court and process the necessary
    papers and then wait for the court's decision. The landlord if
    he or she has a complaint must take the same procedures.
    However, in Philippine society, due to the power and influence
    of these landlords, most of the decision side with them and
    causes injustice to the farmers who deserve to have justice.
    The other cause of the slow implementation is the landlord's
    resistance, which threatened the lives of local DAR workers
    and farmers.
    Fourth, this program is prone to corruption since the
    people involve have wealth and power with them. Naturally,
    every rule will be disregarded once money and politics are
    involved. This also makes DAR officials to side with the
    landowners rather than promoting the rights of the farmers and
    tenants.

    Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is a nice


    program especially to the farmers if it was properly
    implemented by the government and all the farmers could
    benefit from this program. In that way, no farmers would be
    hungry anymore.

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