n n Tenants under the leasehold system have rights of pre-emption and redemption3 in the event that their landowners want to sell the land. According to the Land Bank, a tenant can seek financial support from the bank through the DAR, to buy out their cultivated land, but this process is not well-known to tenants or to DAR field staff. Meanwhile it is well-known and documented that share tenancy remains widespread despite being outlawed, even among those with existing leasehold contracts.4 Women’s rights to land. DAR data reveal that, of the total 2.4 million agrarian reform beneficiaries as of 2015, only 29.5 percent are women. Moreover, women account for only 13.8 percent of all ARBs with Emancipation Patents (EPs), and only 32.8 percent of all ARBs with CLOAs (Figure 2). Figure 2. Distribution of agrarian reform beneficiaries by sex, as of December 2015. Source: Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). (2016). Women and Men in the Philippines: 2016 Statistical Handbook. Presidential Decree 27 which instituted Operation Land Transfer (OLT) in 1972 had no specific provisions on women’s equal rights to land, and this partly accounts for the very low proportion of women with Emancipation Patents. Right of pre-emption is the preferential right of the tenant to purchase the land in case the landholder decides to sell the land. The right of redemption is the right of the tenant to re-purchase the land that he is tilling that was already sold to other parties. 4 Examples of such cases are cited in: Lim, Ernesto, Jr. (2016). Land and water rights issues in Yolanda-hit areas: Learnings from Eastern Samar and Leyte.” AR Now! and Kaisahan policy paper. 3 44 Status of Land and Resource Tenure Reform in the Philippines 2018