State of the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program

STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE AGRARIAN REFORM class Final examination in Economics 1 Room 642 531-631 Submitted by Cresanelle Polo Submitted to Mr. Ceferino Manigos INTRODUCTION Tuwid na Daanor the Straight course of study is a phrase repeatedly mentioned by President Benigno S. Aquino III to cite to his g everywhithernance direction for the province. Essential to this excogitation ofTuwid na Daanis the battle let looseKung Walang Corrupt, Walang Mahirap. The validation believes that depravity is the root cause of the countrys woes, and eliminating corruption lead necessarily lead to renewed robeor confidence, planetual growth and schooling, exiguity reduction, and attainment of peace. The straight path, however, does non whole pertain to the Presidents anti-corruption campaign. It also encompasses a way of doing things right, where the process is disposal agencyicipatory the political programs argon holistic growth is sustained the peace policy is comprehensive and g rowing is sustain qualified. done the living examples of our leaders, led by the President, this re-awakened sense of right and wrong continues to be translated to economic prise. Before going to the important purpose of this report which is to assure the reader on the present state of the Filipino farming(prenominal) arrest better syllabus for the year 2011, lets tackle first the ecumenical farming(prenominal) amend Program. Comprehensive rural neaten- Birth, Struggle & Future The Philippine comprehensive solid ground(prenominal) shed light on program ( carp) was envisioned little(a)ly aft(prenominal) the Filipino liberation from martial rule in 1986.It was knowing to bleak the studyity of the Filipino poor from the bondage of the soil by fashioning them owners of the democracy they process. It also aims to grant economic- size of it worldly concern to the landless. Comprehensive enough, it c overs sireers education, skills training and signifi bottom o f the inningt put forwarders organization, application of improved technology, and fend for by the government. The 1987 Philippine Constitution provides in Article 14, Sec. 4. thatThe domain shall, by jurisprudence, harness an agrarian ameliorate program founded on the right of put forwarders and reparation farm workers, who are landless, to own straight or bodiedly the lands they till or, in the example of an different(prenominal) farm workers, to receive a dependable share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the resign shall get on and to a lower placetake the just diffusion of all sylvan lands, subject to such forwardities and middling guardianship limits as the congress may prescribe, taking into account bionomical, victimizational, or equity considerations, and subject to the retri scarcelyion of just compensation.In determining retention limits the realm, shall respect the right of small property owners, The State shall elevate provide incentives f or military volunteer land-sharing. The overriding idea on a lower floor the Philippine constitution is the preservation of the concept of an economic family-size farm as incorporated in the past land better laws. ( the law prescribes 3 hectares to be a family size farm enough to sustain a family) It is also important to none that ownership by beneficiaries can be individually or collectively.Even in collective ownership however, the constitutional mandate is to preserve the control of the ca-ca over the land a farmer tills. This is so because, agrarian domesticize is essentially a land-to-the-tiller program it is based on the right of farmers and ceaseless farm workers to own the lands they till. (pp. 1200-1201 The 1987Constitution of the Philippines, A Commentary 2003 Edition by Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S. J. ) In the pursuit of the in a higher place constitutional provision, the large AGRARIAN REFORM law (CARL), R. A. 657 was signed into law by President Corazon Aqu ino on June 9, 1988. The soul of CARL, R. A. 6657 is embodied in Section 2 which is re peed below. SECTION 2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The mankind assistance of the landless farmers and farm workers testament receive the highest consideration to promote kindly justice and to move the nation towards sound folksy development and industrialization, and the giving medication of owner cultivatorship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine agri civilization.To this end, a much frank distribution and ownership of land, with due regard to the rights of landowners to just compensation and to the ecological gather ups of the nation, shall be undertaken to provide farmers and farm workers with the opportunity to prove their dignity and improve the quality of their lives finished greater productivity of coarse lands. The agrarian crystallise program is founded on the right of farmers and constant farm workers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of some early(a) farm workers, to receive a share of the fruits thereof.To this end, the State shall encourage the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to the priorities and retention limits direct forth in this Act, having taken into account ecological, developmental, and equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just compensation. The State shall respect the right of small landowners and shall provide incentives for instinctive land-sharing.The State shall recognize the right of farmers, farm workers and landowners, as well as cooperatives and other independent farmers organization, to participate in the planning, organization, and management of the program, and shall provide financial animation to land through appropriate technology and look, and adequate financial, production, marketing and other remain firm servi ces. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian regenerate or stewardship, whenever applicable, in consistency with law, in the disposition or tilization of other natural resources, including lands of the universal domain, under lease or concession, suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands. The State may resettle landless farmers and farm workers in its own agricultural estates, which shall be distributed to them in the way provided by law. By means of appropriate incentives, the State shall encourage the arrangement and maintenance of economic-sized family farms to be constituted by individual beneficiaries and small landowners.The State shall protect the rights of subsistence fishermen, especially of topical anaesthetic communities, to the preferential use of communal naval and fishing resources, both inland and offshore. It shall provide incarnate to such fi shermen through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production and marketing assistance and other services, The State shall also protect, develop and conserve such resources. The protection shall hide to offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against unlike intrusion. Fishworkers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization of marine and fishing resources.The State shall be guided by the principles that land has a social proceed and land ownership has a social responsibility. Owners of agricultural land exhaust the obligation to cultivate directly or through labor administration the lands they own and thereby make the land productive. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest the proceeds of the agrarian rectify program to promote industrialization, employment and privatization of universe vault of heaven enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for lands shall contain features that shall enhance nego tiability and acceptability in the marketplace.The State may lease undeveloped lands of the public domain to qualified entities for the development of capital-intensive farms, traditional and pioneering crops especially those for exports subject to the prior rights of the beneficiaries under this Act. The intent of the Philippine Constitution and R. A. 6657 is crystal clear the progression of social justice through an equitable distribution of land by making it easier for the disadvantaged to be able to acquire land. Agrarian domesticize is meant to reduce inequalities as social justice pauperisms. And in its pursuit, land is to be taken for redistribution to the landless.In the process of taking, the law provides for just compensation. As suggested by Rev. Father Joaquin Bernas. S. J. ,just compensation should depend on the farmers ability to pay and not on the standard fair market value or it exit not be in accord with the thrust of the law. Fr. Bernas cited land reform in Jap an where just compensation was dictated by law and amounted to less than the market value In Japan, according to him, land reform embodied recognition of the reality that expropriation for land reform was not in high notes domain pure and simple, but also exercise of police major power which necessarily entails loss on the part of those regulated.An analogous situation he utter, is the police power of the state to impose p strain control on essential commodities for the benefit of the public but at the expense of the sellers. ( pp. 1203- 1205, Bernas) The COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM course of study (CARP) under CARL has a 10-year slaying period. It is expiring this year, 2008, later on a second extension. The report of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) marchs that from July, 1987 to December, 2004, it has only 75% rate of ccomplishment.Out of the 4,676,017 hectares of driveed head-to-head agricultural land, only 3,499,790 fuck off been distributed. Approximately 1. 2Million hectares remain untouched. Furthermore, according to the University of the Philippines, Los Banos Micro Study, 2007, 75% of the farmer beneficiaries till their land and improve their lives despite palpable lack of support from the government. These farmers are odd with the burden of generating capital and are oftentimes forced to make use of their Certificate of cut down Ownership Award (CLOA) as collaterals for loans.Among the other problems obstructing the success of land reform in the Philippines are problematic landholdings, such as areas with missing titles, erroneous technical descriptions, and court disputes insufficient money for land learning and support services. Protest and oppositions by big landowners is a big stumbling block as well. Furthermore, dissatisfaction on the part of the farmer beneficiaries is some other blot on the program. The heading of Philippine Daily Inquirer Mindanao (02/10/2008) says Farmers awarded CARP lands seek way out of bad deals . The 662 farm workers of the 3,900-hectares Guthrie Estates in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, Negros Occidental found the deal so onerous as they generate not been receiving enough share from the produce of the land assigned to them under a cooperative structure. The farmers be possessed of been protesting and negotiating for better arrangements. One cooperative instalment warned If they will not listen to us, blood will spill over in our land. We have been long dead everyway. Ironically, CARP suffered a blow during the term of President Corazon Aquino.Hacienda Luisita, the Aquino familys own 6,000- hectare estate was exempted from distribution. The hacienda was placed under what is termed the corporative device where the farmers were ease upn shares of stocks and instead of owning the land they till, they receive dividends from the net profit of the physical process of the hacienda as one intact landholding. A lot more is essential to implement CARP effectively even at thi s time when the program period is at its tail end.Among them are decisiveness on the part of government to implement the law against the mighty and powerful landowners strict safeguards against land-use transmutation sufficient amount and better management of funds stronger community-based organization germinal and effective programs for big landholdings. There is an ongoing massive call for CARP extension to be coupled with reforms and more decisive land distribution. On the other hand, landowners are pointing to the flaws and failures of CARP as a basis for terminating the program.Since the hand over of CARP, they have been deriding its existence, have been exerting efforts to thwart its implementation and plotting ways to defeat the spirit of land reform. Farmers now pin their hopes on dramatics Bill zero(prenominal) 3059, or the proposed Genuine Agrarian Reform Act of 2007. It was filed by representatives of party-list assemblys Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Womens Pa rty. The bill seeks to distribute land for free and expand agrarian reform coverage to all agricultural lands in the country.According to the fountain DAR monument Butch Abad, agrarian reform will not succeed if government and business sector will not do their part. And he believes that beggary and social conflict such as the secession movement are due to landlessness to a significant degree. According to Sec. Abad, the present state of things show land reform has failed. Tenants can not be owner-cultivator and farm conductor overnight. After acquiring the farm, they need training, support services, capital. One proof that agrarian reform is not yet a success is that countless farmers have not been given a piece of the land as yet.From the decreed website of the government we gather some bits of information and here they are http//www. gov. ph/2011/07/25/the-2011-state-of-the-nation- apostrophize-technical-report/ The 2011 State of the Nation Address Technical Report 3. 2 Comple ted projects to strengthen the agricultural sector 3. 2. 1. Under the continuing regular fund from the DA, a sum up of 1,814 kilometers of Farm to Market Roads (FMRs) were undefiled from July 2010 to May 2011, out of the targeted 2,567 kilometers. In addition, 687 kms more FMRs were completed under the locally-funded and foreign assisted projects.Overall, a aggregate of 2,501 kms of completed FMRs provide better doorway to markets and social services and boost economic activities by allowing goods and products to flow in and out of the barangays. FMRs also help reduce transport costs, spoilage and declination of quality of agricultural products, and facilitate delivery of farm inputs. 3. 2. 2. From July 2010 to June 2011, a total of 65tramlines were completed connecting remote areas to FMRs. A total of67agricultural tramlines were completed since project start-up in 2009, which is 63%of the targeted107units to be completed by December 2011.The use of these tramlines cuts the co st of hauling by half from P2 to P1 per kilogram of produce and reduces hauling time significantly from hours to just a fewer minutes. Inaugurated on 13 April 2011 at Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, a 400-meter tramline has decreased hauling time from 2 hours to five minutes. Farmers pay P1 per kilo of produce to cover the cost of diesel fuel, engine maintenance and other repairs and grant for the tramline operator. On 25 February 2011, a tramline built by DA-Philmech at a cost of P1. 6 million was inaugurated in La Paz, Zamboanga City, a barangay located 970 meters above sea level.A 370 meter keep between the barangay and the closest national road used to take 12 hours to traverse. With the tramline, travel time over this distance has been reduced to three minutes. A local group, the La Paz Farmers Association operates the tramline collecting a give of one peso for a load of 350 kilos of lemon and vegetables. 3. 2. 3. All in all, in the first 11 months of the Aquino Administration (July 2010 to May 2011), 11,611 hectares of new areas were irrigated, 40,053 hectares were restored, and 171,910 hectares were rehabilitated both for current and carry over projects.Restoration entails repairing the irrigation facility that is before long not functional while replenishment means upgrading or up the facility, which is currently working but has not attained the maximum or designed irrigation efficiency. 3. 2. 4. Put up the following post-harvest facilities * One hundred eighty septette (187) diet terminals from July 2010 to April 2011 benefiting 1,155 small farmers and fishers.These food terminals provide affordable basic food commodities to around 457,859 households who are able to save not only from cheap commodities but also from cuts in transportation expenses and reduction of middlemen costs. The savings on transportation cost ranges from P8P200 for every trip to the market. * Thirteen (13) or 68% of the targeted 19 Corn Post Harvest Trading Centers (CPHTC) in major maize producing areas nationwide. These centers turn back continuous supply of corn even during the annoyed season, guarantee premium quality, and open opportunity for other investments in the corn industry. A total of 1,342 small scale composting facilities in the different regions nationwide, ambit 100% of the target, and generating 5,368 jobs. This forms part of the governments promotion of organic commonwealth through the Organic Fertilizer Production Project, which will enable farmers to produce their own organic fertilizer to reduce dependence on dear(predicate) synthetic fertilizers. * A total of 56 units of flatbed dryers from July 2010 to April 2011, attaining 100% of the target and generating 402 jobs. These will reduce post-harvest losses during the drying stage of palay and ensure quality drying during the showery season. Four (4) cold chain facilities20from July 2010 to May 2011 would enable farmers of high value crops to store their fruits and vegetabl es in the appropriate temperature and prolong the quality and shelf behavior of perishable crops, obtaining for the farmers a better selling price for their produce. These facilities were turned over to three (3) cooperatives in Benguet, Palayan City, and San Jose City, benefiting 139 farmers. * Ten (10) units of Village-Type post-harvest facilities as of June 2011, in make corn production areas and strategic demand sites nationwide.Thirty-one (31) more units are evaluate to be completed and operational by the end of 2011. 3. 3. Fostered a culture of self-reliance 3. 3. 1 Some of the strategies under the Food Staple self-sufficiency program embarrass the termination of direct input subsidies to farmers and front-loading of irrigation investments in 2012 and 2013 to profit output as early as possible, thus decreasing the need to import rice. These actions are already bearing fruit as seen in the bumper crop harvest from January to March 2011. 3. 3. 2 The countrys rice importati on dropped significantly by 80% from an import volume of 2. 2 million MT from July 2009 to June 2010 to 386,243 MT from July 2010 to June 2011. The decrease in volume of echt rice import arrivals can be attributed to the good harvest and the contented stock position of the country. Likewise, rice shipments were scheduled better. From here on, NFA buffer stocks will consist mainly of palay purchased from local farmersa long standing demand of the rice farmers. From January to June 2011, the government through the NFA has procured some P7. 64 billion worth of palay from all over the country. This is 16% of the NFA stock.The NFA targets to extend this volume from the harvest from the main cropping season later this year. The total rice trade in 2010 was 2. 38 million MT. For 2011, the government shall import 64% less or 860,000 MT, with 200,000 MT imported by the government, and 660,000 MT by the private sector. For 2012, rice imports shall further decline to 500,000 MT, with 100, 000 MT imported by the government and 400,000 MT imported by the private sector. 3. 3. 2. The government was able to increase the average farm gate price of palay by 2. 89% inside a short period, thereby immediately increasing the farmers income. strategical militia and placements make it possible for the price of rice to remain stable, thereby secure the affordability and availability of rice to the public. 3. 3. 3. Production in the crops subsector was also up by 8. 19% and the main contributors were palay, corn, excoriationcane, and banana. The country has regained its status as net sugar exporter for the current crop year, having recovered from the sugar shortage in 2009-2010 when the country imported raw and refined sugar. news From the official website of department of agriculture HOUSEAPPROVES DARS P18. -B BUDGET THE Department Agrarian Reform (DAR) prevailed upon the House of Representatives during the plenary hearing Wednesday for its 2012 budget, thanks largely to Pampa nga Rep. Anna York C. Bondoc, who took the cudgels for the agency and pulled it off with equilibrise even as she endured almost six hours of grilling from her colleagues Bondoc, who stood as the athletic supporter for DARs budget, eloquently justified its P18. 3-billion proposed budget, saying that the agency, despite operating on lean budget each year in the past, has managed to deliver the tasks expect of it. How much more if DAR is provided with sufficient funds, Bondoc said even as she rallied her lad lawmakers to come in support of DAR, which is in dire need for more funds to complete the distribution of some 1 million hectares of agricultural lands and deliver much-needed support services in the form of basic rural radical projects and skills development program. The DAR said that P10 billion of its total budget for undermentioned year will go to land tenures improvement, which include landowners compensation P7. billion to program beneficiaries development made up of sup port services in the form of basic rural groundwork projects and skills development program and P1 billion to agrarian justice delivery. Bondoc found an ally in the course defending the departments budget through former DAR Secretary-turned-partylist representatives Nasser Pangandaman of the AA Kasosyo Partylist. Pangandaman sought the replenishment of the source facility in the DARs budget, which was left unfunded, to enable the agency to serve the needs of farmer-beneficiaries for much-needed capital for farm inputs.Coop-Natcco Partylist Rep. Cresente Paez conjugate Pangandaman in his move, saying that the lack of capital is one of the major obstacles to improving the lives of farmer-beneficiaries, most of them are forced to approach loan sharks for farm inputs. Bondoc concord with Pangandaman and Paez on the need to restore the budget for belief facility and even asked them to join her in lobbying the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) about it.She said she would furn ish the DBM with minutes of what had transpired during the budget hearing at the plenary to give it an insight on the issue. DARHOSTS SEMINAR ON CLIMATE PROOFING FOR AGRARIAN REFORM COMMUNITIES The specimen is dire. Scientists say that even if the earths hot temperature on spherical warming is reduced significantly in the coming years, climate convince impacts such as droughts, floods, and other severe weather events are credibly to result in food shortages, increase in water and air-borne diseases, infrastructure damage and the of natural resources degradation.To help farmers adapt to these inevitable eventualities, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation Development (or GIZ) recently conducted a five-day seminar-workshop on Climate Proofing for Development Practical application for agrarian reform communities at the Century Park Hotel in Malate, Manila. The GIZ, Adaptation to Climate sort Conservation of Biod iversity (ACCBio) trainers and the Phil.Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) presented to DAR studies made on the ill effects of climate turn on farms and farming communities in the country. Undersecretary for Special Programs Agrarian Relations Rosalina Bistoyong said the seminar-workshop seeks to understand and hear how to adapt to the climate changes and integrate it in development plans for agrarian reform communities. We at DAR believe that we cannot delay making adaptation plans and actions to ensure that maladaptation by farmers will not worsen adverse climate change effects and clog their sustainable development, said Bistoyong. Climate adaptation ways like plant trees, composting, using bio-friendly fertilizers, organic farming, are just some of the ways the farmers can use to help mitigate climate change, said Corrine Canlas of GIZ. With the climate change impacts we have been experiencing like floods, typhoons and the el nino and la n ina phenomena, implementers need to learn the ways and means to adapt to these eventualities, so that they can put strategies to add development plans for farmers in the agrarian reform communities, added Canlas. Bistoyong said that the implementers will also teach farmers measures to avoid the bad effects of chemicals on the environment and contribute in minimizing global warming. This course will help our implementers in making unavoidable developments plans so that our farmers will be able to cope, adapt and sustain their animation in the face of climate change, Bistoyong said. AGRARIANBENEFICIARIES TO BENEFIT FROM IRRIGATION AND ROAD PROJECTS CABUCGAYAN, BILIRAN sift production and farmers income in this fifth class municipality are judge to increase once the rehabilitation of the communal irrigation system (CIS) and a farm-to-market road in the area are completed.Biliran Agrarian Reform Officer Elisea Orapa said rehabilitation works by the National Irrigation Administratio n (NIA) started early last month, and is expected to be completed in three months time. Orapa cited the Department of Public works and Highways (DPWH), for rehabilitating the 1. 7-kilometer farm-to-market road in Sitio Kasabangan where some 562 meters of this will be concreted for easier and farther conveying of farm products to the market.Eliasem Castillo, Regional Director of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas, said the projects, courtesy of the Japan International Cooperation Agency-Agrarian Reform floor Support Project (JICA-ARISP), would help double farm produce of farmer-beneficiaries in the Balaquid Agrarian Reform Community (ARC). Castillo added that the cardinal projects cost about P8-million, with the local government unit providing 50 percent as its counterpart equity.Ismael Aya-ay, political boss of the Beneficiaries Development Coordinating Division (BDCD) of the DAR-Biliran said that about 60 of the 530 arbitrageurs in the ARC will directl y benefit from the irrigation project, while some 1,686 residents here and in nearby villages will be benefited by the farm-to-market road. ARCs are group of barangays with farmers awarded with land titles where there is a lap of support services provided by the national and local governments, non-government organizations and foreign-donor communities. PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LANDTENURE onward motionThe LTI component seeks to secure the tenurial status of the farmers and farmworkers in the lands they till. This is operationalized either through land acquisition and distribution ( expletive) and leasehold operations. young man involves the redistribution of government and private agricultural lands to landless farmers and farmworkers. Thisis the essence of land reform. It secures farmers tenure, promotes social equity, and provides them with necessary productive resources needed to ensure their economic viability and productivity. Leasehold operations, on the oth er hand, is the alternative non-land transfer scheme.It covers all tenanted agricultural lands such those in the retained areas, not yet acquired for distribution under CARP, and those which may be validly coveredunder quick laws. With the enactment of RA 9700 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms in 2009, LAD should be completed by June 30, 2014 on a province-by-province basis. All remaining unacquired and undistributed agricultural lands shall be acquired and distributed as follows Phase I (01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012) * All remaining lands above liter (50) hectares All private agricultural lands with aggregate landholdings in excess of cardinal (50) hectares which have already been issued Notices of Coverage (NOCs) on or before Dec. 10, 2008 * sieve and corn lands under PD 27 idle and abandoned lands unforced Offer to Sell (VOS) lands * All lands foreclosed by government financial institutions (GFIs), PCGG-acquired lands and other government-ow ned lands * Voluntary Land Transfer (VLT) submitted by June 30, 2009 (before effectivity) * Only VOS & Compulsory encyclopedism (CA) are allowed after June 30, 2009Phase II-A (01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012) * All alienable and disposable, productive public agricultural lands * All public agricultural lands which are to be opened for new development and resettlement * Aggregate above 24-50 hectares issued NOCs on or before 10 December 2008) Phase II-B (01 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) * stay lands in excess of 24 hectares whether or not issued with NOCs Phase III-A (01 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) * 10-24 hectares, insofar as excess of 10 hectares Phase III-B (01 July 2013 to 30 June 2014) above 5 hectares to 10 hectares * Schedule of LAD shall be in accordance with the above order of priority with the ff * EXCEPTION priority land reform areas as declared by PARC (Presidential Agrarian Reform Council) ExCom upon recommendation of the PARCCOM (Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Commi ttee) may be covered in make headway provided that prior phases have been completed * Phase III-B (5-10 hectares) shall not be employ until 90% of the provincial balance as of Jan. 1, 2009 has been completed.Under RA 6657 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (from 1987 to June 2009), the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) covered 2,321,064 has. of private agricultural lands and 1, 727, 054 has. non-private agricultural lands covering a total of 4, 049, 018 has. This is equivalent to 2, 396, 857 ARBs installed. Congruently, under RA 9700 (July 2009 December 2010) , 78, 145 has. private agricultural lands and 75, 862 has. of non-private agricultural lands were distributed. This totals to 154,007 has. equivalent to 97, 712 ARBs installed. Strategic Directions up to 2014To substantially complete summation reform as mandated by RA 9700, the DAR shall * Complete land acquisition and distribution (LAD) in the CARPER balance * Prioritize the subdivision of collective Certificat es of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) involving LBP-compensable lands * Fast track the documentation and settlement of landowner compensation for already distributed lands * Synergize and rationalize the efforts of the CARP implementing agencies in all processes of LAD * Partner with the civil society organizations in the delivery of LTI services, particularly the large-sized private agricultural lands * Adopt a job-sharing scheme under the ONE-DAR Concept and * development the utilization of the services of geodetic engineers to assist in land acquisition. PROGRAMBENEFICIARIES DEVELOPMENT PBD is the support services component of CARP. It aims to capacitate ARBs and provide them glide slope to the necessary support services to make their lands more productive, enable them to think in income generating livelihood projects and actively participate in community governance.Agrarian reform does not rely on land distribution alone, but also on the delivery of support services, including farm-to-market roads, distichs, irrigation, post harvest facilities, rural electrification, potable water supply, school buildings, multi-purpose buildings extension services, credit assistance, and trainings. * 709,187 ARBs fully served under the foreign-assisted projects * 7,170 infrastructure projects * 976 communal irrigation projects completed * 3018 functional ARB-organizations operate (ALDA Level 3,4,5) * 316,610 ARB members are already managing their own farm & non-farm enterprises Support services delivered through the Foreign Assisted Projects (FAPs) and Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF) * 13,259 kilometers of FMR * 226,015 hectares serviced by irrigation systems * 194 multi-purpose buildings * 174 bridge projects (10,473 linear meters) * 428 units of post harvest facilities * 999 units of potable water systemsOther infrastructure projects provided * Health centers, school buildings, flood control, rural electrification,& sanitation systems. Non-infrastructure programs include * introduction farms, rural micro-enterprises, training of ARB leaders, & health and nutrition The DAR adopted the development of agrarian reform communities (ARC) in 1993 to improve the lives ofagrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It was the departments key strategy to accelerate and sustain economic growth in agrarian reform and rural areas through a people-centered, holistic and area focused approach in community development. Since then, the DAR has launched 2,100 ARCs covering 1. million of ARBs in 9,076 barangays. Because of the size limitation of ARCs and the increasing number of ARBs in need of basic support services, the DAR expanded the coverage of its support services through the KALAHI (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan) Agrarian Reform Zones (KARZones). A KARZone is a contiguous area which embraces both ARC barangays and non-ARC barangays within the zone. Strategic Directions up to 2014 The agrarian reform must be able to lift the ARBs out of poverty and transform them in to drivers of rural economic growth. Land distribution is only the first step. Provision of adequate and timely support services are impetus to make the awarded lands productive.Thus, PBD priorities for 2012-2014 shall be to * Undertake convergence initiatives with rural development agencies to complement the resources and streamline the efforts of DAR and DENR * Ink public-private partnerships (PPPs), develop models of collaboration and design business models in the agrarian reform areas with the participation of the CSOs, academe, research and development institutions and LGUs * Expand the ODA portfolio in order to augment funds for PBD * Operationalize the LTI-PBD integrating on a province-to-province basis * Shift focus of low LAD-balance provinces to PBD and * open credit facilities for the agrarian reform beneficiaries through capacity development for credit providers and farmer-borrowers, providing support to risk mitigating institutions and making available credit informat ion to credit providersAGRARIANJUSTICE DELIVERY Delivery of agrarian justice has two features the agrarian juristic assistance and adjudication of cases. Agrarian legal assistance is comprised of root of agrarian law implementation (ALI) cases, ARB representation before legal and quasi-judicial bodies, and mediation and conciliation. On the other hand, Adjudication of cases involves the reply of cases by the DAR Adjudication Board (DARAB) and any of its salas. Under RA 6657, the DAR is vested with the primary jurisdiction to determine and adjudicate agrarian reform matters and to extend free legal assistance to farmer-beneficiaries affected by agrarian cases.There are three types of cases under this program that is to say judicial or court cases, quasi-judicial, and cases related to agrarian law implementation (ALI). The first two types involve representation of farmers by DAR lawyers before the regular courts and DAR Adjudication Board, respectively. The third type involves th e administrative rendering of decision on exemption, changeover and retention. The DAR at present utilizes more aggressive alternative dispute resolution techniques in mediation to reduce conflicts maturing into court cases. The general objective is to transport the contending parties to settle their disputes amicably or out of court before the DAR. Strategic DirectivesThe legal sector intends to provide effective and timely support not only for agrarian reform frontliners in the field of operations and support services but also for the ARBs. Hence, to speed up the resolution of agrarian-related cases, the sector shall * Put the legal framework in place to expedite the LAD process and undertake PBD lawyering * Rationalize DAR lawyers and paralegals appreciation and decision on cases by developing common templates and legal outlines * Improve capabilities of DAR lawyers and legal officers to adequately address AR challenges and * Tap information and communication technology to enha nce legal work.