Agrarian reform involves redistributing agricultural land from large landowners to small farmers and reforming related institutions. It aims to rectify inequities in land distribution and promote rural development. Key aspects of agrarian reform include land redistribution, improving agricultural productivity, reducing poverty, increasing rural incomes and living standards, generating employment, and creating more equitable conditions for rural populations. Effective agrarian reform serves as a precursor to stronger rural economies and overall economic development by increasing agricultural output and incomes.
2. Agrarian Reform
•Agrarian Reform – the rectification of the whole
system of agriculture. It is normally done by the
government where it redistributes the agricultural
lands among the farmers of the country. Agrarian
reform is concerned with the relation between
production and distribution of land among the
farmers.
3. Agrarian Reform
•It is also concerned with the process of raw materials
that are produced by farming the land from the
respective industries. Simply stated, agrarian reform
comprises not only land reform but also the reform
and development of complimentary institutional
frameworks , rural education, and social welfare
institutions (Omas as 2008)
4. Land Reform
• –refers to the full range of measures that may or
should be taken to improve or remedy the defect in the
relations among men with respect to the rights in the
use of land. It is a set of integrated measures designed
to eliminate obstacles to economic and social
development arising in the agrarian structure (de Leon
1994).
5. Agrarian Reform and the Economy
•An effective agrarian reform is a precursor to
successful economies where there are evident
agricultural improvements and growth in income
which leads to economic development.
6. Agrarian Reform and the Economy
• Agrarian reform has several effects to rural
economy in terms of agricultural productivity,
poverty reduction, income and living standards,
employment, investment and capital formation, and
impartiality in rural population.
7. Agrarian reform’s several effects:
1. On agricultural productivity – Agrarian reform
may decrease the agricultural productivity if
collectivization and land fragmentation are
introduced. However, productivity may be
enhanced by the use of new inputs and
technology in the agricultural process.
8. Agrarian reform’s several effects:
2. On poverty – Agrarian reform can minimize the
extent of poverty and also improve the real per
capita income of rural workers.
3. Income and living standards – Agrarian reform
measures increase in the productivity and thus
results to rise in income of rural farmers which will
in turn improve the living standard of rural people.
9. Agrarian reform’s several effects:
4. Employment – Agrarian reform measures result in
better employment. In some cases however, the
introduction of a new technology may bring about
displacement of labor.
5. Investment and capital formation – Agrarian
reform can change the labor-capital ratio that is
needed for any economic development.
10. Agrarian reform’s several effects:
6. Impartiality in rural population – Agrarian
reform has a significant influence in the economic
and political structure of the rural areas. To bring
about equity, land is redistributed from the big
landowners to the small and marginal farmers.
11. Measures of Agrarian Reform
• The following are the focal measures of the agrarian
reform program of the Philippines:
1. *Public health provisions
2. *Family planning
3. Education and training of farmers
12. Measures of Agrarian Reform
4. Reorganization of land reform agencies
5. Application of labor laws to agricultural farmers
6. Construction of infrastructure facilities such as feeder
roads, irrigation systems, et. And the establishment of
rural electrification
13. •7. Organization of various types of voluntary
associations such as farmer’s associations, farmer’s
cooperatives, and many others
•8. Provide employment opportunities for
underemployed or surplus rural labor such as
development of small and medium-scale industries
Measures of Agrarian Reform
14. 9. Other services which are community development
in nature (Nolledo 2000)
Measures of Agrarian Reform
15. The Importance of Agrarian Reform
•Agrarian Reform
History
•Pre Spanish Period
•Spanish Period
•The First Philippine
Republic
Why is agrarian reform important?
•American Period
•Japanese Period
•The Philippine
Republic