Lomerio, Robin N.
BsGE 3B
Philippines' 30 million hectares land are legally classified as alienable and disposable land and
forestland. On this vast land area, 50% are forestland, 47% are alienable and disposable land the rest
are unclassified forrestland. In these facts, shed lights another important realization that the Philippines'
livelihood solely base from its fertile land. It is where crops and poultry animals thrive and live that used
to be the sources of income as well as the capability to feed the vast Filipino population. This land
influenced by various elements such as climate, environment, fields, forest, (including shallow lakes,
rivers, marches, and swamps), mountains and animals. This make the land resource as vital but delicate
and requires management. However its advantages as a resource is it is a resource that cannot be
destroyed, moved, stolen, or wasted. Land resources meet many human needs. In fact, they provide the
essential needs for life and are the building blocks for development. Benefits from land resource
includes; food production for energy sources, habitat for animals maintaining biodiversity, climatic
cycles regulations and more importantly provisions of human settlement. Establishing and maintaining
an effective land management system is considered essential to all states as an important government
activity. This typically includes cadastral surveys to identify and divide land, land registry systems to
support the purchase, sale, mortgage and lease of land, and land information systems to facilitate access
to relevant information. Cadastre forms the basis of a Land administration system that ensures
territorial integrity and security of ownership, and unique land identification that supports effective land
trade.Land Registry and Cadastre are different institutions. Land registries are offices where real estate
information is registered and made public. Conducting cadastral land surveys is a foundation that plays a
key role in providing cadastral information, as well as legal information related to real estate. Well
managed cadastral system is a backbone of sustainable and productive society. Land reform, the
transfer of land ownership from large holders to tillers requires sort of requirements and validation as it
neither guarantee growth nor equity. So it needs program such as agrarian reforms. Land reforms is a
crucial processes that needs amendment and directives from certain laws. This reflects how the the land
reforms forms a part in land administration. Benefits of good land administration can be described as
how sustainable the production and fruition of a land is or how it was easy to move or transfer or
register land. In return good land management share parts in nation's development by properly paying
taxes. Institutional issues in land administration are how could technology be capable of helping the
registries and government offices in processing documents and important papers. Role of
computerization makes land administration systems' jobs easy and fast. It is also reliable as it easily
traced double documents or any mistakes as well as it also monitors fraud. Making receipt and
duplication is also integrated. My recommendation to the system is to double check for glitches.