1.

TRANSPARENCY

ISSUE: Problems on installation and positioning of the beneficiaries of agrarian reform to their
land

 According to the group, in many parts of Mindanao and Luzon, farmers cannot occupy their land
due to titles being hidden in Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) offices. In the Visayas,
landlords are using "delaying tactics" to prevent farmers from occupying their land, despite land
titles already in the possession of the farmers

PROPOSED SOLUTION:

 Create a” Law for transparency of Land Titles” wherein farmers have right to demand the DAR
authorities to show to them their titles if not penalty should be duly given to those officials when
there is no valid reason for not showing such title

2. ACCOUNTABILTY

ISSUE: Cancellation of titles or Certificate of Land Ownership (CLOA)

 Some of the farmers have had their land titles cancelled for many reasons. This is one of the
reasons why DAR officials are stopping the installation of the ARBs. According to the Official
Gazette, “some titles were destroyed, and had to be reissued through a court process, similar to
filing a case.” These cases, according to a study from the University of the Philippines, can take
at least 148 days for processing even in the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

PROPOSED SOLUTION:

 Create a “ LAND TITLE’S DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM” a system wherein all land
titles is recorded in a computer system so that even if some documents went missing it can be
retrieved in the system.

3. RULE OF LAW

ISSUE: Conflicting laws

 Despite the farmers’ faith in CARP, they recognized that it incurs some problems because some
provisions of CARP are in conflict with the law. This includes problems with zoning conversion
where some arable lands are being used for mining. "This is just one of the many and heavy
problems that we, the agrarian beneficiaries, face," the farmers said in the statement. The farmers
continue to hope that Duterte and incoming Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael
Mariano will stand by their promise to implement an agrarian reform program that would dump a
"loophole-ridden" version of the program that allowed landlords to maintain control of vast
agricultural landholdings already subject to redistribution.

"Kami ay umaasa sa isang administrasyon maka-magsasaka," the group concluded. (We are
looking forward to a pro-farmer administration.) – Rappler.com