Introduction.

Countries facing external as well as internal constraints on resources are invariably forced to develop imaginative approaches to building resilience that offer lessons to countries under less pressure. This issue of the Journal is one of the first to be published under the Open Access format that is becoming the norm for academic publishing. Of all the policy options for increasing community-led, non-market-based options for improving access to secure and affordable land, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) offer great advantages. [Extracted from the article]