n In cases where landowners physically prevent DAR and LBP personnel from conducting field investigations and surveys, DAR should coordinate with the PNP. Address the DAR’s lack of mandate to issue new Notices of Coverage (NOCs). Section 30 of RA 9700 set a deadline of 30 June 2014 to commence LAD proceedings on all private agricultural lands to be covered by CARP. However, DAR failed to issue Notices of Coverage (NOCs) for thousands of landholdings covering more than 100,000 hectares. The issuance of new NOCs by DAR will require new legislation by Congress. DAR should implement the leasehold program as a priority under CARP, because tenants without leasehold contracts are vulnerable to eviction. As a start, DAR should clean up its in-house data on leasehold and come up with a comprehensive database of all the target landholdings for leasehold operations. Implement women’s equal rights to land ownership and ensure that specific steps are undertaken to identify rural women as beneficiaries, and recognize them as rightful owners or co-owners of awarded lands independent from their male relatives or of their civil status. Also, ensure women’s equal access to all support services and extension. Equal land rights for women should be emphasized in the orientation of all DAR staff. Monitor, address and prosecute violations of CARP. DAR should: n Put an end to illegal land use conversions; n Eradicate the practice of chop-chop titles wherein landowners illegally subdivide the land and transfer the titles to their children, relatives and dummy corporations in order to avoid coverage by CARP. These transfers are enlisted with the Registry of Deeds (ROD), without prior clearance by DAR, as required by law; n Comprehensively monitor agribusiness venture agreements (AVAs) entered into by ARBs and their organizations; and stop the proliferation of unfair and unregistered AVAs especially lease agreements; and, n Annotate the Notice of Coverage into land titles under LAD, as a preemptive measure against the landholding from being illegally converted, sold, or subdivided. Improve legal support for agrarian reform beneficiaries and for DAR personnel. The measures include: (a) the establishment of a legal fund in support of ARBs; (b) revision of DAR’s formation program for paralegals; (c) increase of legal fund for DAR personnel who may be charged with cases in line with implementing their 32 Status of Land and Resource Tenure Reform in the Philippines 2018