This law provides for the creation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to promote and ensure the welfare of landless farmers and farm workers, as well as social justice and equity among people in the rural areas.



Among those to be given due consideration in the distribution and ownership of land and representation in decision-making bodies are subsistence fishermen, veterans and retirees, agriculture graduates, and rural women.





Reference: Philippines News Agency

June 10, 1988: Corazon Aquino signed into law the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform act