Meanwhile, Duterte encouraged the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to study the
land reform program 'very carefully' before it is implemented.
"The panel's recommendations complement and reinforce the work being done by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on
Land Reform chaired by the Deputy President.
"That has got to include
land reform, but that has got to go in tandem with other forms of support.
'To make the communist rebels irrelevant, the government must seriously implement the
land reform program,' he added.
This will make it difficult to implement large-scale and highly redistributive
land reformsThis is why a resolution was drafted at the second
land reform conference to abolish it.
Keen to downplay criticisms that it is unprepared for the reality of radical, wide-ranging
land reform, the government is preparing a post-acquisition initiative, the revised National Resettlement Policy, to support beneficiaries of
land reform.
A new report by the World Bank, virtually ignored by the international media, categorically comes out in favour of comprehensive
land reform in South Africa as the only means of reducing income disparities and promoting social cohesion.
The Scottish Land Commission was formally launched last April after the passage of the
Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016.
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