Lack of support for the leasehold program. While the data show that DAR exceeded its annual leasehold targets in recent years, this program needs to be reviewed. DAR still has no comprehensive database of all the target landholdings for leasehold operations. There are indications that the leasehold program has not been given its due priority, as share tenancy remains widespread despite being outlawed in 1963. Leasehold should be an important component of the agrarian reform program. Issues in the delivery of agrarian justice Slow disposition of cases. Farmworkers cannot sustain their legal battles due to the expensive and very slow disposition of agrarian reform cases. Judicial courts often take years to decide a case with finality and without assurance that the case will be decided in favor of the farmers. Limited legal assistance to ARBs and to DAR officials performing their mandate. It is difficult to find lawyers in rural areas who are willing to represent the farmworkers in judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, especially if the case is probono. Most of the lawyers in those areas with high LAD balance are either not familiar with agrarian reform, from landed families, or already representing the landowners. Meanwhile, the legal staff in the local DAR offices are not enough to cater to the demand for legal assistance, especially in the provinces with high LAD balances and with a history of strong landowner resistance. Issues in providing support services to ARBs A comprehensive, effective and efficient delivery of support services to agrarian reform beneficiaries will help CARP awarded lands become more productive, diverse, and economically feasible. This will also encourage ARB families to sustain and farm the land and will prevent illegal sale, conveyance and leasing of CARP lands. Here are some of the emerging issues on PBD: Insufficient and inefficient support services for ARBs. The PBD component of CARP remains underfunded, and the DAR is not taking into consideration in their budget preparations the existing appropriations provisions of RA 9700 and the mandatory 5 percent for GAD (RA 9710). RA 9700 mandates the government to provide socialized credit to existing ARBs and initial capital to new ARBs, but this provision was not fully implemented. The delivery of support services is 54 Status of Land and Resource Tenure Reform in the Philippines 2018