malawi and mozambique both adopted land redistribution policies favouring the landless and de facto occupants while niger s rural code provides for mechanisms to resolve land tenure conflicts decentralization was achieved through land boards in uganda rural councils in senegal land commissions in niger and land committees in lesotho uneca wider access to land through land reform andor more secure rights whether individual or collective proprietary or not creates better incentives for agricultural investment and is therefore likely to result in increased employment in agriculture the mix of measures to be enacted naturally needs to be adapted to local conditions the local institutional setting and local traditions nevertheless since the mid s several ldcs have been entering into lease or sale agreements involving large patches of land for commercial agriculture development by foreign investors socalled land grab operations without fully privatizing land markets