[2] It is the redistribution of private and public agricultural lands to help the beneficiaries survive as small independent farmers, regardless of the “tenurial” arrangement.
8532 [5] to allocate additional funds for the program and extending the automatic appropriation of ill-gotten wealth recovered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) for CARP until the year 2008.
[8] Under the CARP, a total target of 10.3 million hectares of land was programmed to be distributed over a span of ten years.
Under this component, the DAR mediates between the landowners and tenants so that their share tenancy arrangement could be turned into a leasehold agreement, whereby the beneficiaries will pay a fixed fee based on their own historical production records instead of paying a large percentage share of their produce to the landowner.
[11] Under the support service delivery programs, the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council(PARC) ensures that agrarian reform beneficiaries are provided with support services such as land surveys and tilting, construction of infrastructures, marketing and production assistance, credit and training.
The adjudication of cases deals with disputes pertaining to tenancy relations; valuation of lands acquired by DAR under compulsory acquisition mode; rights and obligations of persons, whether natural or juridical, engaged in the management cultivation and use of all agricultural lands; ejectment and dispossession of tenants/leaseholders; review of leasehold rentals; and other similar disputes.
60 percent of the Philippine population is rural, and over 12 million Filipinos make a living directly from agricultural cultivation.
6657, also known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), was passed to promote social justice and industrialization.
Because of much dissatisfaction with the agrarian reform law, proposals from peasant groups and non-government organizations grew in order to implement an alternative program that was more advantageous to them.
Under the Aquino administration, a total of 898,420 landless tenants and farmers became recipients of land titles and support services.
It focused on “less contentious landholdings and acquisition modes,” where they chose to work with autonomous NGOs and peasant organizations.
It wanted to reduce uncertainties in land market in rural places to help farmers’ efficiency and private investment to grow.
It encouraged joint ventures, corporative, contact farming and other marketing arrangements to protect the status of stakeholders and promotion of agri-industrialization.
They also improved the databases of the implementing agencies of DAR and DENR to fully record and update the lands covered.
Estrada highlighted that there was a need to conceptualize new approaches in doing things to build a new social agreement where producers, government and private sectors work with a common goal.
In December 2008, the budget for CARP expired and there remained 1.2 million hectares of agricultural land waiting to be acquired and distributed to farmers.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) identifies and screens potential beneficiaries and validates their qualifications.
[citation needed] In 2003, 15 years into the program, studies funded by the United Nations Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, European Union, and the Philippine Government had shown that poverty incidence among program beneficiaries declined from 47.6 to 45.2 percent, while increasing among their non-participating counterparts from 55.1 to 56.4 percent.