This Executive Order has been made in implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme (CARP) launched by the Presidential Proclamation No. 131 of 22 July 1987, published in the same Official Gazette, p. 3422-0-1. The basic mechanisms envisaged in the Executive Order to effect the…

The Act makes provision for the promotion and recognition of the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs), with a view to preserve their culture, traditions and institutions and to ensure the equal protection and non-discrimination of members. The Act is divided…

This Act makes provision for the protection of the environment of a broad sense. Its provisions are divided into Titles, the major part of them dealing with specific aspects of environment protection.Title I makes provision with respect to air and noise pollution.Purpose Title II to prescribe…

This Act lays down the basic principles of forest management and conservation, makes provision for the administration of forestry (Chap. I), the survey and classification of lands for purposes of forestry (Chap. II), and the use of forest resources (Chap. III).Basic policy principles are…

This Order concerns the implementation of comprehensive land use plans by local authorities in accordance with criteria and standards of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLRB), who shall review, evaluate and approve land use plans. Procedures are outlined for cities and municipalities…

The Bureau of Soil Conservation shall have a headed by the Director of Soil Conservation, to be appointed by the President. All the divisions, sections, field activities and agencies of the Government connected with soils work are hereby transferred to the Bureau of Soil Conservation and such…

The provisions of section 61 of Commonwealth Act No. 141 to the contrary notwithstanding, marshy lands, and lands underwater bordering on shores or banks of navigable lakes or rivers which are covered by subsisting leases or leases which may hereafter be duly granted under the provisions of the…

Amendments made to the principal Act concern its application sphere, compulsory land acquisition, incentives for aquaculture projects, conversion of agricultural land into fish ponds and prawn farms, protection of mangrove areas, and change of crops. Lands actually, directly and exclusively used…

Various definitions set out in sections 4 and 5 are modified notably the definition of "leasehold tenancy". Section 9, providing for contractual implications in the case of severance of relationship between landlord and tenant, is completely rewritten. The tenant shall have the right…

An Act to govern the relationship between landholders and tenants of agricultural lands.The Act is divided into 4 Parts: General provisions (I); The Share System (II); The Leasehold Tenancy (III); Security of tenure (IV).It is the purpose of this Act to "establish agricultural tenancy…

This Code establishes the system and defines powers of provincial, city, municipal and barangay governments in the Philippines. It provides for a more responsive local government structure instituted through a system of decentralization whereby Local Government Units are delegated more powers,…

This Administrative Order prescribes guidelines to implement the Upland Agroforestry Program which aims at distributing 4 million hectares of unproductive forestlands under the public domain in order to provide occupants with land tenure security and a source of livelihood, to enhance forest…