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REPUBLIC ACT No. 1400
AN ACT DEFINING A LAND TENURE POLICY, PROVIDING FOR AN INSTRUMENTALITY TO CARRY OUT THE POLICY, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION.
-It is the declared policy of the State to create and maintain an agrarian system which is peaceful, prosperous and stable, and to this end, the Government shall establish and distribute as many family-size farms to as many landless citizens as possible through the opening up of public agricultural lands and the division and distribution of private agricultural lands where agrarian conflicts exist, either by private arrangement with the owners or through expropriation proceedings.

-Land tenure is the relationship that individuals and groups hold with respect to land and land-based resources, such as trees, minerals, pastures, and water. Land tenure rules define the ways in which property rights to land are allocated, transferred, used, or managed in a particular society.

Section 5. Functions. It shall be the responsibility of the Administration to:

-Studies on the land tenure problems throughout the Philippines

-Immediate investigation in areas reporting land tenure difficulties and recommend appropriate action

-Plan for the systematic opening of virgin lands of the public domain for distribution to tenants, preference to be given to those tenants who are ejected by virtue of mechanization and to other landless citizens;

-Implement and carry out the expropriation and the resale or lease of urban lands already authorized by existing laws.

Republic Act 821
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AN AGRICULTURAL CREDIT AND COOPERATIVE FINANCING SYSTEM TO ASSIST SMALL FARMERS IN SECURING LIBERAL CREDIT AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE GROUPINGS OF FARMERS INTO COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS TO ENABLE THEM TO MARKET EFFICIENTLY THEIR AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES, AND TO PLACE AGRICULTURE ON A BASIS OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY WITH OTHER INDUSTRIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES