Rural land is a great investment for widows and orphans but unless you are involved in active management of the occupying farm business its best to subscribe the land on lease so you get it back when the business goes bust. Many of them will go down with the ship or be cheated in some other way. What a waste when it could have provided pensions to so many poor people in rural areas, so many of whom got land. It is a basic misconception that land reform is about agriculture. It's about land and landowning.
Ownership is one thing, occupation is another.
Most have no knowledge and most of all no capital. But enthusiasm for leasing has come a bit late to save the transition economies from fragmentation of the landholding structure.