State of the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program

STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE AGRARIAN cryst onlyize PROGRAM Final examination in Economics 1 Room 642 531-631 Submitted by Cresanelle Polo Submitted to Mr. Ceferino Manigos INTRODUCTION Tuwid na Daanor the Straight Path is a phrase repeatedly menti iodinenessd by chairwoman Benigno S. Aquino III to pertain to his governance direction for the country. Essential to this concept ofTuwid na Daanis the battle cryKung Walang Corrupt, Walang Mahirap. The authorities believes that corruption is the root ca persona of the countrys woes, and eliminating corruption will necessarily lead to re-create investor confidence, eventual growth and development, poverty slightening, and attainment of stay. The straight path, however, does non only pertain to the Presidents anti-corruption campaign. It likewise encompasses a way of doing things right, whither the process is participatory the syllabuss argon holistic growth is sustained the peace policy is general and development is sustain adequate. Through the living examples of our leaders, led by the President, this re-awakened sense of right and malign continues to be translated to economic time value. Before going to the main purpose of this report which is to inform the reader on the present state of the Philippine agricultural Reform course of instruction for the year 2011, lets sway first the Comprehensive rural Reform Program. Comprehensive agricultural Reform- Birth, Struggle & Future The Philippine comprehensive agricultural put right program ( chouse) was envisioned patheticly by and by the Filipino liberation from martial rule in 1986.It was designed to assoil the majority of the Filipino poor from the bondage of the soil by reservation them owners of the reason they till. It also aims to grant economic- size of it roughhewnwealth to the cutless. Comprehensive enough, it covers set upers education, skills training and strong farmers organization, natural covering of improved technology, and pr oject by the judicature. The 1987 Philippine Constitution provides in Article 14, Sec. 4. thatThe decl be shall, by law, downstairstake an agrarian improve program founded on the right of farmers and regular farm workers, who atomic number 18 fetchless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of former(a) farm workers, to take a simply sh atomic number 18 of the ingatherings thereof. To this end, the severalize shall encourage and undertake the on the button distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable memory board limits as the congress whitethorn prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental, or equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just salary.In determining be wantings limits the State, shall respect the right of small landowners, The State shall further provide incentives for unbidden land-sharing. The overriding idea under the Philippine constitution is the preservation of the concept of an economic family-size farm as embodied in the past land reform laws. ( the law prescribes 3 hectares to be a family size farm enough to sustain a family) It is also important to note that ownership by beneficiaries back be individually or collectively.Even in collective ownership however, the constitutional mandate is to restrain the controller of the tiller over the land a farmer tills. This is so because, agrarian reform is essentially a land-to-the-tiller program it is based on the right of farmers and regular farm workers to own the lands they till. (pp. 1200-1201 The 1987Constitution of the Philippines, A scuttlebutt 2003 Edition by Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S. J. ) In the pursuit of the in a higher place constitutional provision, the COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN clear practice of law (CARL), R. A. 657 was signed into law by President Corazon Aquino on June 9, 1988. The soul of CARL, R. A. 6657 is embodied in Section 2 which is re put forwardd below. SECT ION 2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program ( chouse). The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to crusade fond justice and to plump the nation towards sound rural development and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivatorship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine market-gardening.To this end, a more equitable distribution and ownership of land, with due regard to the rights of landowners to just wages and to the ecological involve of the nation, shall be undertaken to provide farmers and farm workers with the opportunity to enhance their dignity and improve the quality of their lives through with(predicate) greater productivity of agricultural lands. The agrarian reform program is founded on the right of farmers and regular farm workers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, i n the case of other 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 set 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 voluntary 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 oversight of the program, and shall provide turn off to agriculture through conquer technology and research, and adequate pecuniary, production, marketing and other support services. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever applicable, in accordance with law, in the disposition or til ization of other natural resources, including lands of the general 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 heritable lands. The State may resettle landless farmers and farm workers in its own agricultural estates, which shall be distributed to them in the manner provided by law. By actor of appropriate incentives, the State shall encourage the formation 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 local anesthetic communities, to the preferential use of communal marine and fishing resources, twain inland and offshore. It shall provide support to such fishermen through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production and marketing assistance and other services, The State shall also protect, d evelop and observe such resources. The protection shall extend to offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against exotic 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 function and land ownership has a social responsibility. Owners of agricultural land catch the obligation to cultivate directly or through labor administration the lands they own and thereby situate the land productive. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest the proceeds of the agrarian reform program to promote industrialization, employment and privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for lands shall contain features that shall enhance negotiability and acceptableness in the marketplace.The State may lease undeveloped lands of the public domain to qualified entities for the development of capital-intensive farms, conventional and pioneering line ups 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 promotional material of social justice through an equitable distribution of land by making it easier for the disadvantaged to be able to acquire land. Agrarian reform is meant to reduce inequalities as social justice demands. 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 will not be in accord with the thrust of the law. Fr. Bernas cited land reform in Japan 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 idealistic domain pure and simple, but also exercise of police power which necessarily entails loss on the part of those regulated.An analogous situation he verbalise, is the police power of the state to impose impairment 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 PROGRAM (CARP) under CARL has a 10-year implementation period. It is expiring this year, 2008, after a second extension. The report of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) shows that from July, 1987 to declination, 2004, it has only 75% rate of ccomplishment.Out of the 4,676,017 hectares of targeted private agricultural land, only 3,499,790 have been distributed. more or less 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 impro ve their lives despite tangible lack of support from the authorities. These farmers are left with the burden of generating capital and are oftentimes forced to leave use of their Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) as col afterwardsals 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 in decent currency for land acquisition and support services. Protest and oppositions by big landowners is a big stumbling farce as well. Furthermore, dissatisfaction on the part of the farmer beneficiaries is another blot on the program. The heading of Philippine occasional Inquirer Mindanao (02/10/2008) says set approximatelyers 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 western found the deal so onerous as they have not bee n receiving enough share from the obtain of the land assigned to them under a cooperative structure. The farmers have been protesting and negotiating for better arrangements. One cooperative segment warned If they will not listen to us, blood will spill over in our land. We have been long dead some(prenominal)way. Ironically, CARP suffered a setback 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 scheme where the farmers were addicted shares of stocks and instead of owning the land they till, they receive dividends from the net profit of the operation of the hacienda as one intact landholding. A lot more is necessary to implement CARP effectively even at this 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 conversion sufficient amount and better management of funds stronger community-based organization creative 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 birth of CARP, they have been deriding its existence, have been exerting efforts to thwart its implementation and plotting ways to toss off the spirit of land reform. Farmers now pin their hopes on House Bill No. 3059, or the proposed real Agrarian Reform Act of 2007. It was filed by representatives of party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Womens Party. The bill seeks to distribute land for free and turn out agrarian reform reporting to all agricultural lands in the country.According to the former DAR Secretary dyke Abad, agrarian reform will not s ucceed if government and business sector will not do their part. And he believes that poverty and social conflict such as the secession movement are due to landlessness to a signifi peckt degree. According to Sec. Abad, the present state of things show land reform has failed. Tenants can not be owner-cultivator and farm manager overnight. After acquiring the farm, they rent training, support services, capital. One trial impression 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 ex officio 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-address-technical-report/ The 2011 State of the Nation Address Technical Report 3. 2 holy projects to strengthen the agricultural sector 3. 2. 1. to a lower place the continuing regular fund from the DA, a occur of 1,814 kilometers of Farm to Market Roads (FMRs) were faultless 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 total of 2,501 kms of completed FMRs provide better access to markets and social services and tramp economic activities by allowing goods and products to flow in and out of the barangays. FMRs also assist reduce transport costs, spoliation and deterioration of quality of agricultural products, and facilitate language 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 cost of hauling by half from P2 to P1 per kilogram of produce and reduces hauling time significantly from hours to just a few minutes. Inaugurated on 13 April 2011 at counterpart Peaks, Tu ba, Benguet, a 400-meter tramline has minify 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 allowance 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 distance between the barangay and the close set(predicate) 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 fee of one peso for a load of 350 kilos of edible corn whisky and vegetables. 3. 2. 3. whole in all, in the first 11 months of the Aquino constitution (July 2010 to May 2011), 11,611 hectares of new areas were irrigated, 40,053 hectares were re instald, and 171,910 hectares were rehabilitated both for current and carry over projects.Restoration entails repairing the irrigation facility that is currently not functional era refilling means upgrading or improving 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 80 seven (187) food terminals from July 2010 to April 2011 benefiting 1,155 small farmers and fishers.These food terminals provide affordable staple food commodities to around 457,859 households who are able to save not only from low-priced 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 corn producing areas nationwide. These centers break continuous cede of corn even during the wet season, guarantee premium quality, and open o pportunity for other investments in the corn industry. A total of 1,342 small scale composting facilities in the different regions nationwide, reaching 100% of the target, and generating 5,368 jobs. This forms part of the governments promotion of complete farming through the Organic Fertilizer Production Project, which will change farmers to produce their own organic fertilizer to reduce dependence on expensive 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 rainy season. Four (4) cold chain facilities20from July 2010 to May 2011 would enable farmers of high value crops to store their fruits and vegetables in the appropriate temperature and prolong the quality and shelf life of perishable crops, obtaining for the farmers a better merchandising price for their produce. These fac ilities 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 winder corn production areas and strategic demand sites nationwide.Thirty-one (31) more units are expected 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 fasten Self-Sufficiency program include the termination of direct input subsidies to farmers and front-loading of irrigation investments in 2012 and 2013 to increase 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 signification 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 lower in volume of actua l rice import arrivals can be attributed to the good harvest and the well-to-do 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 one million million worth of palay from all over the country. This is 16% of the NFA stock.The NFA targets to increase this volume from the harvest from the main cropping season later this year. The total rice imported 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 nightfall 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 o f palay by 2. 89% within a short period, thereby immediately increasing the farmers income.Strategic reserves and placements made it possible for the price of rice to remain stable, thereby assuring 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, sugarcane, and banana. The country has regained its status as net sugar exporter for the current crop year, having recover 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 comprehensive hearing Wednesday for its 2012 budget, thanks largely to Pampanga Rep. Anna York C. Bondoc, who took the cudgels for the agency and pulled it off with poise even as she endured almost sextet hours of grilling from her co lleagues Bondoc, who stood as the sponsor 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 expected of it. How much more if DAR is provided with sufficient funds, Bondoc express even as she rallied her fellow 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 infrastructure projects and skills development program. The DAR said that P10 billion of its total budget for next year will go to land tenures improvement, which include landowners compensation P7. billion to program beneficiaries development made up of support services in the form of basic rural infrastructure projects and skills development program and P1 billion to agrarian justice delivery. Bondoc found an ally in the co urse defending the departments budget through former DAR Secretary-turned-partylist representatives Nasser Pangandaman of the AA Kasosyo Partylist. Pangandaman sought the replenishment of the realization rating 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 joined 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 agreed with Pangandaman and Paez on the need to restore the budget for recognise facility and even asked them to join her in lobbying the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) about it.She said she would furnish 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 humour PRO OFING FOR AGRARIAN REFORM COMMUNITIES The warning is dire. Scientists say that even if the earths hot temperature on globose warming is reduced significantly in the coming years, climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, and other severe weather events are likely to result in food shortages, increase in irrigate 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 Change preservation of Biodiversity (ACCBio) trainers and the Phil.Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) presented to DAR studies made on the ill cause of climate change on farms and farming communities in the country. Undersecretary for Special Programs Agrarian Relations Rosalina Bistoyong said the seminar-workshop seeks to understand and go steady how to adapt to the climate changes and integrate it in development plans for agrarian reform communities. We at DAR believe that we cannot assure making adaptation plans and actions to ensure that maladaptation by farmers will not worsen adverse climate change effects and impede their sustainable development, said Bistoyong. Climate adaptation ways like planting 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 nina 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 necessary developments plans so that our farmers will be able to cope, adapt and sustain their livelihood in the face of climate change, Bistoyong said. AGRARIANBENEFICIARIES TO BENEFIT FROM IRRIGATION AND path PROJECTS CABUCGAYAN, BILIRAN Rice production and farmers income in this fifth class municipality are expected 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 ships officer Elisea Orapa said rehabilitation works by the National Irrigation Administration (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 conveyance 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 Infrastructure Support Project (JICA-ARISP), would help double farm produce of farmer-beneficiaries in the Balaquid Agrarian Reform Community (ARC). Castillo added that the ii projects cost about P8-million, with the local government unit providing 50 percent as its counterpart equity.Ismael Aya-ay, chief of the Beneficiaries Development organise Division (BDCD) of the DAR-Biliran said that about 60 of the 530 arbitragers in the ARC will directly 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 farming LANDTENURE IMPROVEMENTThe 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 (LAD) and leasehold operations. LAD 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 other 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 existing 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 fifty (50) hectares which have already been issued Notices of Coverage (NOCs) on or before Dec. 10, 2008 * Rice and corn lands under PD 27 idle and abandoned lands Voluntary Offer to Sell (VOS) lands * All lands foreclosed by government financial institutions (GFIs), PCGG-acquired lands and other government-owned lands * Voluntary Land Transfer (VLT) submitted by June 30, 2009 (before effectivity) * Only VOS & Compulsory Acquisition (CA) are allowed after June 30, 2009Phase II-A (01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012) * All alienable and disposable, arable public agricultural lands * All public agricultural lands which are to be opened for new development and re resolution * Aggregate above 24-50 hectares issued NOCs on or before 10 December 2008) Phase II-B (01 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) * Remaining 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 antecedency with the ff * EXCEPTION priority land reform areas as declared by PARC (Presidential Agrarian Reform Council) ExCom upon good word of the PARCCOM (Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee) may be covered in advance provided that prior phases have been completed * Phase III-B (5-10 hectares) shall not be implemented 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 addition reform as mandated by RA 9700, the DAR shall * Complete land acquisition and distribution (LAD) in the niggler balance * Prioritize the subdivision of collective Certificates of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) involving LBP-compensable lands * Fast track the documentation and settlement of landowner compensation for already distributed lands * Synergize and r ationalize 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 * Increase the utilization of the services of geodetic engineers to assist in land acquisition. PROGRAMBENEFICIARIES training PBD is the support services component of CARP. It aims to capacitate ARBs and provide them access to the necessary support services to make their lands more productive, enable them to venture 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, bridges, irrigation, post harvest facilities, rural electrification, potable water supply, school buildings, multi-purpose buildings extension services, credit assistance, and trainings. * 709,187 ARBs to the full 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 computer memory (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 * Demonstration farms, rural micro-enterprises, training of ARB leaders, & health and nutrition The DAR adopted the development of agrarian reform communities (ARC) in 1993 to imp rove 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 produce the ARBs out of poverty and transform them into drivers of rural economic growth. Land distribution is only the first step. preparation of adequate and timely support services are impetus to make the awarded lands produc tive.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 integration on a province-to-province basis * Shift focus of low LAD-balance provinces to PBD and * Unlock 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 information to credit providersAGRARIANJUSTICE DELIVERY Delivery of agrarian justice has two features the agrarian legal assistance and adjudication of cases. Agrarian legal assista nce is comprised of resolution of agrarian law implementation (ALI) cases, ARB representation before judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, and mediation and conciliation. On the other hand, Adjudication of cases involves the resolution 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 namely 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 the administrative rendering of finding on exemption, conversion and retention. The DAR at present utilizes more aggressive alternative dispute resolution techniques in mediati on to reduce conflicts maturing into court cases. The general objective is to persuade 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 rush 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 enhance legal work.