World Education Connect Multidisciplinary e-Publication, Vol. VI, Issue IX (September 2026), pp.132-137
Chester D. Caro
Land recognition creates opportunity, but productive ownership depends on beneficiaries' ability to understand their rights, mobilize resources, manage risks, and obtain continuing support. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of 18 newly recognized Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program beneficiaries in Barangay Magsalangi, Milagros, Masbate. Total enumeration covered the complete bounded group: 11 beneficiaries associated with a 21.26-hectare property and seven associated with a 21.48-hectare property. Individual semi-structured interviews generated narratives that were transcribed, coded, and analyzed thematically. Twenty-one themes emerged across seven research areas. Recognition ended prolonged uncertainty and affirmed dignity, yet it also introduced cultivation, payment, stewardship, and compliance responsibilities. Participants drew productive confidence from farming experience and planned gradual, diversified development, but limited capital, costly inputs, labor and machinery gaps, weak infrastructure, climate exposure, and uncertain markets restricted action. Perseverance, family labor, reciprocal community relationships, farmer organization, and institutional linkages supported adaptation. Beneficiaries requested coordinated seasonal finance, complete inputs, field-based technical assistance, water, mechanization, access roads, climate protection, organization development, market connections, and sustained post-award guidance. They viewed productive landownership as a pathway to household security, intergenerational stewardship, dignity, and collective progress. The shared experience was a transition from awaited recognition to conditional possibility. Formal rights became meaningful when complementary resources and institutions enabled beneficiaries to cultivate responsibly, recover from shocks, and secure fair returns.
agrarian reform beneficiaries, landownership, farm productivity, post-award services, phenomenology
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