Encomienda System (Spanish) - land redistributed to the encomenderos
Friar Land Act (American) - ecclesiastical encomiendas (friar lands) were bought by the American government to be sold to the tenants on installment basis
Commonwealth Act No. 178 (An Amendment to Rice Tenancy Act No. 4045) provided for certain controls in the landlord-tenant relationships
National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)- established the price of rice and corn thereby help the poor tenants as well as consumers
Republic Act No. 34 -- Established the 70-30 sharing arrangements and regulating share-tenancy contracts
Republic Act No. 55 -- Provided for a more effective safeguard against arbitrary ejectment of tenants
Executive Order No. 355 issued on October 23, 1950 -- Replaced the National Land Settlement Administration with Land Settlement Development Corporation (LASEDECO)
Republic Act No. 1160 of 1954 -- Abolished the LASEDECO and established the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA)
Republic Act No. 1199 (Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954) -- governed the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers by organizing share-tenancy and leasehold system
Republic Act No. 1400 (Land Reform Act of 1955) -- Created the Land Tenure Administration (LTA) which was responsible for the acquisition and distribution of large tenanted rice and corn lands
Republic Act No. 821 (Creation of Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing Administration) -- Provided small farmers and share tenants loans with low interest rates of six to eight percent
Republic Act No. 3844 of August 8, 1963 (Agricultural Land Reform Code) -- Abolished share tenancy, institutionalized leasehold, set retention limit at 75 hectares, invested rights of preemption and redemption for tenant farmers
Proclamation No. 1081 on September 21, 1972 ushered the Period of the New Society. Five days after the proclamation of Martial Law, the entire country was proclaimed a land reform area and simultaneously the Agrarian Reform Program was decreed
Republic Act No. 6389, (Code of Agrarian Reform) and RA No. 6390 of 1971 -- Created the Department of Agrarian Reform and the Agrarian Reform Special Account Fund
Presidential Decree No. 2, September 26, 1972 -- Declared the country under land reform program
Presidential Decree No. 27, October 21, 1972 -- Restricted land reform scope to tenanted rice and corn lands and set the retention limit at 7 hectares
Republic Act No. 6657 or otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) - signed into law by President Corazon C. Aquino on June 10, 1988
Executive Order No. 405, June 14, 1990 – Vested in the Land Bank of the Philippines the responsibility to determine land valuation and compensation for all lands covered by CARP
Executive Order No. 407, June 14, 1990 – Accelerated the acquisition and distribution of agricultural lands, pasture lands, fishponds, agro-forestry lands and other lands of the public domain suitable for agriculture
