"Investors from Sri Lanka and abroad have already secured many land areas.
For one thing, the government lacks the administrative capacity to process many land transfers quickly.
What leads so many land deals in Africa to such destructive results for local communities?
From one of London's many land and housing battlegrounds comes news of a victory for progress.
Many land owners feel it is Draconian and Mr Bush said he favours avoiding "unnecessary regulatory, economic and social burdens".
Like many land battles, the fight over the swell is about arcane differences in land-management law.
Many land outside restaurants, stores, subway stations, subway cars and anyplace people have been standing in line.
Fleeing warzones and troubled areas in Syria and Africa, many land in Greece, trying to make it into the EU after setting sail from Turkey.
Activists claim that for decades large tracts of land were illegally distributed by corrupt officials, leaving many land titles in question.
As it stands now, data from the country's many land crossings are stored separately from information about the arrivals and departures at international airports.
