Land Settlement schemes have been established in certain countries for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most important has been the need for making land available to an otherwise landless segment of the population. Geographers the world over have long been interested in land settlements, since, in many cases, they entail redistribution of population and land use changes. [...]

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"The fundamental problem facing the world to-day is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on physical resources, particularly on resources of land," said Professor Dudley Stamp (77:13). In 1830, Reverend Thomas Malthus, in his "A Summary View of the Principle of Population" stated that the population tends to grow in a geometrical progression. [...]

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