50 consultations on wildlife conservancies, forest plantations and on indigenous forest reserves. In many areas consensus could emerge quickly. Well-planned participatory processes can be carried out in a limited period of time and participation and consensus building are therefore not an insurmountable constraint to speedy action. The currently proposed land tenure policy which differentiates the land tenure forms for A1 and A2 resettlement lands should be publicised and continue to guide administration in the mid term, during a transitional period over the next three to five years. The tenure policy for A1 farms is based on unifying their conditions of tenure with that of the communal areas, i.e. providing a form of ‘customary’ tenure for residential and arable land to individuals and group tenure for common grazing lands. But, where new self-contained A1 plots are in demand, a program to facilitate conversion should be implemented. The policy on the forms of land tenure in communal and resettlement areas needs to be thought through more deeply, along the lines of a decentralised customary tenure administration system as previously proposed by the Rukuni Commission6. 6.4.2 Allocation of Remaining and Additional Land. In the short term, the Government should seriously consider implementing the following recommendations adopted from the Utete Report, particularly those that enhance equity and allow for the allocation of some larger land sizes in selected specialist land uses and enterprises in A2 and the remaining LSCF. We are concerned that the needy stakeholder groups, such as the former farm workers, women, inhabitants of selected congested communal areas, and the unemployed urban/peri-uban, have not benefited sufficiently from the land reform, while urban and other well-off and well-connected groups have benefited disproportionately in terms of quantity, quality, location, and irrigation of the land they were allocated. It is urgent that the land which remains unallocated, and additional land which will become available in the future as a consequence of downsizing of plantations, estates, conservancies, remaining LSC Farms, and oversized new A2 and A1 farms is used to correct these serious blemishes on the land reform program. A decision to reserve all the remaining and additional land to these underserved or left out categories of farmers would be a first step, followed by the design of the respective targeting rule and transparent implementation mechanisms. We very much regret that very few former farm workers were resettled in the reform program, and many of them are now destitute. They also constitute a valuable resource in agricultural production. In the short term, to help keep this resource within the farming community, Government should excise pieces of newly resettled lands, especially those with farm compounds and social services, and develop these as local authority satellite service centres to cater for the 6 Rukuni Land Commission, 1994. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into appropriate agricultural land tenure systems. Vol. One: Main report and Vol. Two: Technical reports. Under the Chairmanship of Proffessor Mandivamba Rukuni. For his Excellency The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. October 1994. Government printer, Harare.