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Report On Feudalism
Report On Feudalism
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Feudalism!
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Encomienda System
EUROPEAN FEUDALISM
Main Objectives:
Improve service delivery Reduce red tape and corruption in registration of land transactions
LAND ADMINISTRATION
Status of LA in the Philippines
One of the most inefficient in the world
Main Objective:
Reduce land inequality primarily in rural areas
AGRARIAN REFORM
Themes to which agrarian reform contributes positively
promotion of macroeconomic stability and equitable growth acceleration of environmentally sustainable rural development with social equity
Adequate support services to raise productivity, income and living standards of farmers
Agrarian disputes are settled in the trial courts in accordance with Chapter XIII of Republic Act No. 6657, Sections 54-62 What are agrarian disputes?
any controversy relating to tenurial arrangements over lands devoted to agriculture, including disputes concerning farmworkers associations or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of such tenurial arrangements
Case files
Case files
Composed of:
10 barangays (villages) Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT), the second largest sugarmill the country
Only 4,915 ha. of the hacienda was subjected to land reform, the remaining 2000 ha. declared non-agricultural
Case files Farmers petitioned revocation of SDP after 16 years of no improvement in their livelihood Reasons:
take-home pay went to as low as P9.50 a week unfair labor practices illegal retrenchment
A total of 5,700 Luisita workers went on a strike from Nov. 11, 2004 to Dec. 8, 2005
7 of the protesting farmers of the said hacienda were massacred No arrests were made
November 2011
The Surpeme Court ordered the distribution of almost 5,000 hectares of land to some 6,000 farmer beneficiaries of Hacienda Luisita Inc.
- properties over which a person or group of persons has exclusive rights. - owners right holder - the capacity to call upon a society to stand behind the right holders claim to a benefit stream. Responsible for the Recognition and Legitimacy of Property Rights
- State - Enforces and protects property rights of the citizens
IMPORTANCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THE POOR - Provides not only income stream but also incentives to invest in productive technologies and sustainable management of the resources for the future
LAND PROPERTY
-fundamental asset for the rural and urban poor.
For most poor people, land is: - means of generating livelihood - vehicle for investing, accumulating wealth, and transferring such wealth between generations. Tenure insecurity and subsequent low investments in land resulted to land degradation and poor agricultural production. Thus, secure property rights are an enabling factor in improving the investment climate, natural resources management, urban land management, and decentralization, as well as in promoting good governance.
LAND ADMINISTRATION
Refers to the processes of recording and disseminating information about the ownership, value, and use of land.
Philippine system is considered one of the most complex systems in Asia and is consequently plagued with: - institutional defects - inconsistencies - corruption - unworkable practices
1987 Constitution
Fundamental law which sets the basis of use and ownership of land in the Philippines and it recognizes three (3) types of tenure 1. Ancestral Lands - Comprise forestlands, inland waterways, coastal areas, and natural resources above and below the land. 2. Public Lands - alienable or disposable (agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, educational, charitable and other similar purposes), forests, mineral lands, and national parks. - the state is the owner of public lands. 3. Private Lands - satisfies conditions for private ownership.
- Provision of adequate program funding, particularly for land acquisition and credit risk arrangements
- Ensuring that agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) can improve the acquired land in a viable and sustainable manner.
Gantuangco Family
- showed tax declaration of the land
Farmers
-cultivated the land (once a forest) -resided for more than 50 years
DAR (Department of Agrarian Reform) - Dependent on the decision of DENR - CARP is applied when it is owned by a landlord - No responsibilities on land distribution
Recommendations
focus on education