Thesis, Undergraduate (BS Agribusiness Economics)--University of the Philippines, Mindanao

Philippines being an agricultural country make agriculture as the main source of livelihood. During the Spanish occupation, encomienda system was introduced which gives the encomienderos the right to collect tributes to land rents and the natives eventually become tenants.Through the course of history, series of intervention were made to improve the lives of the farmers but most of them failed to materialize. In 1988, the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was created. This program seeks to empower the lives of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) through equitable distribution and ownership of the land based on the principle of the land to the tiller. This study was conducted in order to identify the factors affecting the success and failure of the performance of CARP. A key informant interview was conducted on 40 beneficiaries of selected agrarian reform cooperatives (ARCs) of Malita, Davao del Sur namely; LACAMPCO, LCBA and MARWABEMPCO. Binary probit analysis was used in determining the significant factors affecting the success of the CARP implementation. Results show that years of education and age negatively affects the ARB's perception. As the respondents get older they will more likely perceive that CARP implementation is not successful. Their response is also the same as the education level of the respondent increases. On the other hand, total income, and years in the cooperative both have positive relationship to the likelihood of a "success" perception of CARP. As the ARBs income rises, and the number of years in the cooperative increases, the higher is the probability that ARBs would believe that indeed the implementation of CARP is successful.The proponent recommends that government agencies should look closely on the variables perceived by the ARBs which significantly affects the viability of CARP, since in the first place, the ARBs are the ones greatly affected by the program.