n n n n coverage, and with no DAR lawyers to represent them. This impedes the LAD process for private agricultural lands. DAR’s lack of capability and resources to conduct simultaneous surveys and field investigations, partly due to the lack of in-house survey teams. Continuing landowner resistance even after the issuance of EP/CLOAs to the ARBs. In Eastern and Western Visayas, many former landowners are still in possession and control of lands already awarded to farmers. DAR’s lack of interest to run after violators encourages more circumvention and resistance to the program. Frequent changes in DAR leadership (three Secretaries in 2016-2018), along with conflicting issuances and changing priorities under each new administration. Administrative Order 7, Series of 2011 slowed down LAD implementation on landholdings with pending cases as it constrained DAR from completing the LAD process if a case questioning CARP coverage of a landholding is not yet denied by the Office of the President. This issuance was amended twice, and finally revoked – under three successive DAR Secretaries. Status of the leasehold program. RA 3844 enacted in 1963 was the first nonredistributive agrarian reform program which sought to protect the rights of tenant farmers. It ensures tenant rights to a homelot, and outlaws share tenancy in favor of leasehold arrangements. According to DAR, the leasehold program benefits over 1.2M tenants in 1.8M hectares of agricultural land. The 2016 and 2017 DAR accomplishment reports also indicate that DAR exceeded its leasehold targets. However, there are indications that the leasehold program has been generally neglected by the DAR over the past few decades: DAR has no comprehensive database of all the target landholdings for leasehold operations from which to compare and validate the accomplishments. The data available only show cumulative accomplishments since 1987 (including contracts that have been renewed), rather than the total number of beneficiaries and total area of farms currently under leasehold. n Under the existing policies, leaseholders are considered agrarian reform beneficiaries with equal benefits to those ARBs awarded with land, yet no data are available on the support services given by the government to leaseholders. n Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) 43