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    The document summarizes the history of agrarian reform in the Philippines under Spanish and American rule. Under the Spanish, land was owned by religious orders, Spanish colonists, and encomenderos who exploited Filipino farmers. The Americans established land ownership laws but inequality persisted as only the wealthy could afford titles. Peasant uprisings demonstrated social tensions over land issues. Overall agrarian reforms prior to World War II largely failed to address the root problems.

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    The document summarizes the history of agrarian reform in the Philippines under Spanish and American rule. Under the Spanish, land was owned by religious orders, Spanish colonists, and encomenderos who exploited Filipino farmers. The Americans established land ownership laws but inequality persisted as only the wealthy could afford titles. Peasant uprisings demonstrated social tensions over land issues. Overall agrarian reforms prior to World War II largely failed to address the root problems.

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    Readings in the Philippine History

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    PPT - AGRARIAN REFORM

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    The document summarizes the history of agrarian reform in the Philippines under Spanish and American rule. Under the Spanish, land was owned by religious orders, Spanish colonists, and encomenderos who exploited Filipino farmers. The Americans established land ownership laws but inequality persisted as only the wealthy could afford titles. Peasant uprisings demonstrated social tensions over land issues. Overall agrarian reforms prior to World War II largely failed to address the root problems.

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    Agrarian Reform is the rectification of the whole

    system of agriculture, an important aspect of the


    Philippine economy because we nearly half of the
    population is employed in the agricultural sector, and
    most citizens live in rural areas.
    1. Under Spain
    -Pueblo Agriculture System – rural communities , often
    dispersed and scattered in nature, were organized into a pueblo
    and given land to cultivate.
    -Families are not allowed to own a land. Spaniards owned
    them and must be cultivated by the Filipinos and must be paid off
    with their agricultural products.
    -Law of Indies, where Spanish crowned tracts of land to:
    • Religious Orders
    • Repartamientos, as a reward for their service.
    • Spanish Encomendos, where Filipinos pay their tribute to them as
    mandated manager of the land.
    1. Under Spain
    -The Encomienda System was an unfair and abusive system
    as Filipinos must sell their products at a very low price or
    surrender it the encomiendos. Encomiendos also required service
    that are not related to farming.
    -The Hacienda System a system where is claimed and
    registered in other people’s names, and many peasant families
    who were assigned and forced to be under the power the people
    that held the title.
    2. Under Americans
    -Philippine Bill Act of 1902 provided regulations of
    disposal of lands among Filipinos where private individual may
    own 16 hectares while corporates landholders may own 1,024
    hectares.
    -Philippine Commission Act No. 496 or the Land
    Registration Act that to address the absence of earlier records
    and conduct accurate land surveys to ensure the land is well
    distributed.
    -Despite, landownerships did not progress, it even worsens.
    Landownerships can only be seen to those who can afford to buy
    a fixed property of titles.
    2. Under Americans
    -The Sakdal (or Sakdalista) Uprisingwas a peasant
    rebellion in Central Luzon that lasted for two days, May 2-3,
    1935. It was crushed by the government forces then, but this
    historical event tells of the social inequality brought about by
    issues in land ownership and tenancy in the country.
    -The creation of National Rice and Corn Corporation
    (NARIC) assigns public defenders to assist peasants in court
    battles for their rights to the land, and the Court of Industrial
    Relations to exercise jurisdiction over disagreements arising the
    from landowner-tenant relationship. The homestead program also
    continued through National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA).
    The Agrarian Reform of the Philippines were a failure afterwards
    to the extent that the period of World War II put a halt on to all
    the interventions fro these problems.

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