Answer to Question #255919 in History for Sam

Question

Does the Agrarian reform law change the farming industry in the Philippines? Answers should not be less than 200 words

Answer 1

Over 60 nations have passed agricultural reform legislation since the Second World War. While some of these initiatives have been implemented effectively, many others have been adopted in part and have had little effect on the uneven distribution of land ownership. Over decades, proponents and opponents of agrarian reform have made positive and negative assessments of the impact of agrarian reforms on the social and economic conditions in their respective countries, the former to demonstrate the validity of their policies and the latter to demonstrate the polar opposite. Numerous farmers who were allocated land as part of the country's agricultural reform program have been waiting decades for individual titles. The majority of rural societies are integrated communities in which the many components - agricultural, non-agricultural, economic, social, political, religious, and secular - are inextricably linked.

The same integration of components applies to initiatives such as agricultural reforms that are intended to alter the current condition. For example, in the Philippines, shifting priorities in public investment in agriculture, trade liberalization, fluctuations in the value of the peso, and fluctuations in the price of inputs such as fertilizer and crude oil have all had a significant impact on the industry. The majority of agricultural reforms seek a combination of political, social, and economic goals at the same time. The categorization of these components is somewhat arbitrary since there is no clear separation between the aims, some of which may even be in direct conflict with one another, and the classification is arbitrary because there is no clear delineation between the objectives. Agrarian reforms are, at their core, policies that try to alter the balance of power in a society. The rural people should be appeased and absorbed into society via the abolition of large-scale landed property and feudal production methods, and this would help the political stability of the nation in the process.