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- Realizing that being landless was the main cause of social unrest and revolt that time, the Americans sought to put an end to the miserable conditions of the tenant tillers and small farmers by passing several land policies to widen the base of small landholdings and distribute land ownership among the greater number of Filipino tenants and farmers.
- American Era (1898-1935)
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- Spanish Era (1521-1896)
- The colonial government at this period introduced a pueblo agriculture, a system wherein native rural communities were organized into pueblo and each Christianized native family is given a four to five hectares of land to cultivate. The pueblo agriculture practiced no share cropper class or landless class.
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- “This land is Ours God gave this land to us”Before the Spaniards came to the Philippines, Filipinos lived in villages or barangays ruled by chiefs or datus. The datus comprised the nobility. Then came the maharlikas (freemen), followed by the aliping mamamahay (serfs)and aliping saguiguilid (slaves).However, despite the existence of different classes in the social structure, practically everyone had access to the fruits of the soil. Money was unknown, and rice served as the medium of exchange.
- Pre-Colonial Period
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- Commonwealth Years ( 1935-1942)
- Land Reform Program
- The government under the stewardship of President Quezon realized that land reform programs should be implemented immediately. They saw the purchase of friar lands as a possible way to solve the problem of inequitable land ownership. They also saw the Homestead program could be transformed into a massive resettlement program, if properly implemented.
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- During this occupation, peasants and workers organized the HUKBALAHAP (Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon) on March 29, 1942 as an anti-Japanese group. They took over vast tracks of land and gave the land and harvest to the people.
- Japanese Era
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- Let's learn about the Agrarian Reform on the different Eras of the Philippines.
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- Spanish Era (1521-1896)
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