Department of Agrarian Reform

MANDATE AND FUNCTIONS

To lead in the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) through land tenure improvement, agrarian justice, and coordinated delivery of essential support services to client-beneficiaries.

• To provide land tenure security to landless farmers through land acquisition and distribution; leasehold arrangements' implementation and other LTI services;
• To provide legal intervention to Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) through adjucication of agrarian cases and agrarian legal assistance;
• To implement, facilitate and coordinate the delivery of support services to ARBs through Social Infrastructure and Local Capability Building (SILCAB); Sustainable Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise Development (SARED); and Access Facilitation and Enhancement Services (AFAES).

MISSION

"To lead in the implementation of agrarian reform and sustainable rural development in the country through land tenure improvement, the provision of integrated development services to landless farmers, farmworkers, small landowner and landowner-cultivators, and the delivery of agrarian justice, as key to long lasting peace and development in the countryside".

VISION

"A nation where there is equitable land ownership and empowered agrarian reform beneficiaries who are effectively managing their economic and social development for a better quality of life".