Later, RA 6657 or the CARP Law of 1988 stated that “all qualified women members of the agricultural labor force must be guaranteed and assured equal right to ownership of the land, equal shares of the farm’s produce, and representation in advisory or appropriate decision-making bodies” (Section 40-5). However, this provision had no implementing rules and regulations until the mid-1990s. DAR Circular 18/1996 mandated the issuance of EPs and CLOAs in the names of both spouses as co-owners. It was only through RA 9700, however, that an expressed provision in the law recognized women’s right to own and control land “independent of their male relatives and of their civil status.” The law also mandated the provision of “equal support services for women.” For 2010 to 2015, the data show a slight improvement – women constituted 38.6 percent of all ARBs issued with CLOAs during this six-year period. However, this underlines the continuing need for more decisive action to ensure equal land rights for women. On Agrarian Justice Delivery (AJD) Agrarian reform is a social justice program founded on the rights of landless farmers and farmworkers to own directly or collectively the lands they till. Figure 3. Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) cases addressed through DAR administrative decision, 1993-2017. Source: DAR Legal Affairs Office June 2018 Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) 45