Land Reform and Agricultural Development have a considerable potential to contribute to rural development, job creation, poverty alleviation, food production and redressing the past dispossession of land. It is the Committees view that the Department of Rural Development is not the only department which can fast track rural development. The complexity of rural development requires a number of Departments to come on board such as Agriculture, Energy, Public works, Water Affairs, Social Development, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Trade and Industry, Economic Development, Education, Health and Transport. The role of Department of Rural Development is to coordinate such programmes.