Agrarian Reform in the Philippines

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Across
  1. 2. Tenancy Law: Introduced a 50-50 sharing arrangement between tenants and landlords to promote equitable sharing of harvests
  2. 6. Act: Facilitate the issuance of titles under Torrens System
  3. 8. Created to resettle landless farmers
  4. 10. Agrarian Reform Law: The legal backbone of CARP
  5. 12. Reform Act: Known as the Land for the Landless Program, this law aimed to redistribute hacienda lands to tenants
  6. 14. Land Act: Provided for the administrative leasing and selling of these lands to Filipino tenants
  7. 16. Law: Farmers and landholders were given one year to register their agricultural lands to avoid declaration of it as a state property
  8. 18. Bill of 1902: Set limits on land ownership where 16 hectares can be acquired by a private individual and 1,024 hectares for corporations.
  9. 19. Land Act of 1919: Granted equal rights to Americans and Filipinos in acquiring public lands
  10. 20. Encourage investors to bring investments into the countryside
  11. 22. Reform: Aims in redistributing land to landless farmers
  12. 24. Plugged the legal loopholes in land use conversion
Down
  1. 1. Provided financial support to farmers
  2. 3. Macapagal: Father of Agrarian Reform
  3. 4. Trust Fund: Allowed the voluntary consolidation of small farm operation into medium and large scale integrated enterprise that can access long-term capital.
  4. 5. of the Indies: The law that formalized Spanish control over land and established the origin of agricultural tenancy
  5. 7. Established to expand and accelerate the resettlement program for landless farmers
  6. 9. Agrarian Emancipation Act: law erased their unpaid debts, interest, and penalties, giving them financial relief
  7. 11. No. 27: The only law in the Philippines which was handwritten by a Chief Executive
  8. 13. Land Reform Code: Abolished share tenancy and instituted the leasehold system
  9. 15. The implementing framework of CARP by Arroyo
  10. 17. A traditional agricultural practice where forested land is cleared through controlled burning to make way for farming
  11. 18. Oversee and expedite the implementation of agrarian reform policies
  12. 21. reform: Aims to redistribute the land and give support and services to farmers
  13. 23. Registration Act: Introduced the Torrens system