AGRARIAN REFORMS

Question 1

Refers to a series of measures and policies aimed at redistributing
agricultural land, improving land tenure systems, and addressing
inequalities in land ownership and access.

Answer 1

Agrarian Reform

Question 2

When was the Spanish Period?

Answer 2

(1521-1896)

Question 3

A system of giving lands (Royal Land Grants) to the Spanish
conquerors (conquistadores) that were loyal to the Spanish Monarch.

Answer 3

Encomienda

Question 4

What angered the native landowners and what did they demand?

Answer 4

The grabbing of lands by the Catholic religious orders angered the nativeland owners and demanded that their lands be returned based on ancestral
domain.

Question 5

When was the American Period

Answer 5

(1898-1935)

Question 6

Provided for a comprehensive registration of land titles under the Torrens system.

Answer 6

The Land Registration Act of 1902 (Act No. 496)

Question 7

Introduced the homestead system in the Philippines.

Answer 7

The Public Land Act of 1903

Question 8

Advocated the Social Justice program to block the increasing social unrest in Central Luzon.

Answer 8

Manuel L. Quezon

Question 9

(An Amendment to Rice Tenancy Act No. 4045) enacted on Nov. 13, 1936, provided for certain controls in the landlord- tenant relationships.

Answer 9

The Commonwealth Act No. 178

Question 10

(1946-1948)

Answer 10

President Manuel L. Roxas

Question 11

During the Roxas’ administration, the following laws were enacted: Republic act No. 34, which

Answer 11

established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and regulated the
share-tenancy contracts.

Question 12

President Elpidio Quirino (1948-1953) issued executive order No. 355 on October 23, 1950

Answer 12

Which replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation

Question 13

President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957) enacted the following laws:

Answer 13

•Republic Act No. 1160 of 1954, which abolished the LASEDECO and established the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA) to
resettle dissidents and landless farmers, parituclarly aimed at rebel returnees

•Republic Act No. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954), which governed the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers by organizing share-tenancy and leasehold system. It also created the Court of Agrarian Relations.

•Republic Act No. 1400 (Land Reform Act of 1955), which created the Land Tenure
Administration (LTA) that was responsible for the acquisition and distribution of large tenanted rice and corn lands over 200 hectares for individuals and 600 hectares for corporations.

Question 14

• President Diosdado Macapagal (1961-1965) enacted Republic Act No. 3844 ofAugust 8, 1963 (Agricultural Land Reform Code) that:

Answer 14

•Abolished share tenancy, institutionalized leasehold
•Set retention limit at 75 hectares

Question 15

President Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986) decreed:

Answer 15

Republic Act No. 6389, (Code of Agrarian Reform) and RA No. 6390 of 1971 that created the
Department of Agrarian Reform and the Agrarian Reform Special Account Fund and expanded the
scope of agrarian reform.

Question 16

President Corazon C. Aquino (1986-1992) Executive Order No. 229, July 22, 1987

Answer 16

Provided the mechanism for the
implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform (CARP), declared full
ownership to qualified farmer-beneficiaries.

Question 17

This law amended certain provisions of RA 6657 and exempted fishponds and prawns from CARP coverage.

Answer 17

Republic Act No. 7881 of 1995 President Fidel V. Ramos (1992-
1998)

Question 18

Forged into joint ventures with private investors into agrarian sector.

Answer 18

The DAR
President Joseph E. Estrada (1998-
2000)

Question 19

Executive Order No. 379 s 2004, amending Executive Order No. 364 entitled Transforming the
Department of Agrarian Reform into the Department of Land Reform (DLR), which broadened the
scope of the Department by making it responsible for all land reform in the country. It also placed the
Philippine Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP) under its supervision and control. DLR was also
responsible for the recognition of the ownership of ancestral domain by indigenous peoples,
under the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).

Answer 19

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001-2010)

Question 20

Developed a plan of action for the
implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with
Reforms (CARPER).

Answer 20

President Benigno Simeon
Cojuangco Aqiuno III (2010-2016)

Question 21

the chairman of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council
(PARC), has included land tenure security in his 10-point socio-economic agenda to improve the quality of life of farmers and raise their productivity, also pursues an “Oplan Zero Backlog”

Answer 21

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
(2016-2022)