Highly skewed land distribution. A signature feature of rural Myanmar is its highly skewed distribution of cultivable farmland. Data on land distribution remain difficult to assemble given a cute political sensitivities, locational differences in traditional tenure systems and large numbers of unrecorded, informal transactions. Even so, available evidence unambiguously suggests that the highest rates of landlessness occur in the Delta region, where field estimates of rural landlessness range from 50% to 80% of rural households. In the Dry Zone and hilly regions, where land pressure is visibly less, the share of landless in total rural households ranges between 25% and 45% (LIFT 2012). Although estimates of landlessness differ widely, the preponderance of available evidence – from various household surveys and from the last three agricultural censuses -– suggests that between one quarter and one half of all rural households are landless in the sense that they have no land use rights to cultivable land.