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The “biggest challenge” to finally accomplishing agrarian reform, more than 20 years after the Philippine Constitution articulated that it shall be the main means to realize social justice in the countryside, is “distributing 1.5 million hectares…to 1.1 million beneficiaries” with barely three years left to the current administration to implement the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPER).  This is the central message of the study recently released by the non-government, international think tank Focus on the Global South.  Through a roundtable discussion, the study was presented to key government officials and civil society advocates of agrarian reform, September 9, 2011.