The vision of the DRDLR is a "vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities and food security for all' and would require a coordinated and integrated broad based agrarian transformation. The DRDLR articulated its mission as that of initiating, facilitating, coordinating, catalyzing and implementing an integrated rural development programme. A programme for agrarian transformation that denotes "a rapid and fundamental change in the relations (systems and patterns of ownership and control) of land, livestock, cropping and community" has been identified as a strategy of the