Comprehensive Agrarian Reform

The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), established by Republic Act No. 6657 in 1988, is the Philippines’ primary land reform initiative aimed at promoting social justice, poverty alleviation, and rural development. It covers all public and private agricultural lands, redistributing them to landless farmers and farmworkers to break land monopolies and foster equity. 

The agrarian reform is part of the long history of attempts of land reform in the Philippines.^[3] The law was outlined by former President Corazon C. Aquino through Presidential Proclamation 131 and Executive Order 229 on June 22, 1987,^[4] and it was enacted by the 8th Congress of the Philippines and signed by Aquino on June 10, 1988. In 1998, which was the year that it was scheduled to be completed, the Congress enacted Republic Act No. 8532 ^[5] to allocate additional funds for the program and extending the automatic appropriation of ill-gotten wealth recovered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) for CARP until the year 2008.