Land Administration And Institutions

1. Department of Agrarian Reform: surveys, compensation; registration of lands, and issuance of certificates of ownership

2. Housing and Urban Development

Coordinating Council: coordinates with the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board for the review of development plans, zoning, and settling land-use conflicts

Land Administration And Institutions

3. Land Management Bureau (under DENR): recommends policies/programs for the administration of alienable and disposable lands

4. Land Registration Authority: issues patents and certificates of title and registers land-transaction documents

Land Administration And Institutions

5. National Commission on Indigenous Peoples: securing title and approves any proposed disposal, utilization, management or appropriation of ancestral lands

Reporma sa Lupa

Agrarian and land reforms

during the American and

Commonwealth Period

• Onset of the Philippine Bill of 1902:

- Public land disposal

• Land Registration Act of 1902:

- Torrens system and Cadastral Act

for Land titles

• Public Land Act of 1903:

- Homestead system

• Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933

• First Public Land Act (Act No. 926)

• Second Public Land Act ( Act No. 2874)

• Friar Land Act (Act No. 1120)

• Sugarcane Tenancy Contracts Act of 1933 or Act No. 4113

• Act. No. 141 (Amendment of 2874)

According to the history of DAR:

- Americans focused on land reform to calm revolt and social unrest among Filipinos who were mostly farmers and soil tillers that time

- Disposal of public lands:

1. Individual ownership: 16 ha

2. Corporate land holdings: 1, 024 ha

3. Americans can own agricultural lands

1902

- For land issuance, survey, and record-keeping

All public and private lands were

subjected for registration

1902

- evidence of the right of the owner

- maintain control and as a rule assert right to exclusive possession and enjoyment of the property

- Entitles ownership to enterprising

tenants to possess at least 16 ha to cultivate

- Not widely implemented

1903

-- Legalized 50-50 crop sharing arrangement only in provinces where the majority of the municipal councils shall,

by resolution, petition for its application

- Seventy-thirty Law

1933

1933

-- rules and regulations for selling and leasing portions of the public

domain, completing defective Spanish

land titles, and canceling and

confirming Spanish concessions

1933

1902

- administration and temporary leasing and sale of certain haciendas and

parcels of land, commonly known as friar lands

1902

Do you think the Filipinos became

better off?

AGRARIAN REFORM LAND REFORM

Rice Share Tenancy Act Friar Land Act

*Philippine Bill of 1902 First Public Land Act

Torrens and Cadastral

Homestead System

Commonwealth Act No. 178

Commonwealth Act No. 461

Commonwealth Act no. 441

Commonwealth Act No. 103

Commonwealth Act No. 32

Commonwealth Act No. 608

An act to promote the well-being of

tenants (aparceros) in agricultural lands devoted to the production of rice and to

regulate the relations between them and the landlords of said lands, and for other purposes.

1936

An Act Providing For The Subdivision And

Sale Of All The Portions Of The Friar Lands Estates Remaining Undisposed Of

1936

November 13: National Rice and Corn Corporation established

An act to regulate the relations between landowner and tenant and to provide for

compulsory arbitration of any controversy arising between them

1937

An act creating the National Land Settlement Administration

1939

March 2: Rural Program Administration established

- lease and sale of haciendas

An act to afford protection of labor by creating a court of industrial relations

empowered to fix minimum wages for

laborers and maximum rentals to be paid by tenants

1936

and to enforce compulsory arbitration between employees or landlords, and employees or tenants, respectively; and by

prescribing penalties for the violation of its orders

1936 ,

in all cases where land is held under any system of tenancy, the tenant shall not be dispossessed of the land cultivated by him

... for any just cause, and without the approval of a representative of the Department of Justice,

Be not afraid of

Growing slowly ---

Be afraid only of

Standing still

http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1952/jan1952/gr_l-4206_1952.html

http://philippinelaw.info/statutes/ca461.html

http://www.lis.dar.gov.ph/documents/2739

http://www.lis.dar.gov.ph/documents/2752

http://www.dar.gov.ph/

http://www.lra.gov.ph/index.php?page=about_us_history

http://usaidlandtenure.net/sites/default/files/country-profiles/full-reports/USAID_Land_Tenure_Philippines_Profile.pdf