35 - 2,385 households do not have land - 2,814 households need to secure their small landed properties - 68 households are still governed by the practice of ubugererwa - 252 households are under threat of sale of their landed property due to poverty. The following are some of the consequences which figure under the vulnerability of the Batwa: Smallness of the cultivable land size: on occupied land, distribution of estates, the individualization of the methods of exploitation which give rise to family conflicts whereas the Batwa Community has always been known to live in solidarity. Degradation and over exploitation of the land: Within the context of the current population pressure, the smallness of the land size has reached such a degree that numerous Batwa families are compelled to over-use the land leading to its degradation; Illegal occupation of state land: The Batwa families that don’t own land and some others that do own land but which in size is small are compelled to establish themselves illegally and anarchically on private or state-owned land which appear to be vacant and at times unhabitable, unsuited to agricultural purposes. These activities reveal the deficiencies of the State’s services which are not able to solve the land problem of the Batwa families. This often results in land conflicts and in the cutting down of trees in certain State forest reserves which cost a lot in terms of financial resources to the State or to the donors; The tendency of the Batwa is to assimilate the Institution of Ubugererwa to serfdom in place of illegal economic exploitation. 14.1. Challenges of the current system of access to landownership - Complexity and unwieldiness of the landownership procedures: even though some have been translated into Kirundi such as the 1986 Land Code. The Land Code is not known by its users, namely the Batwa population and the Repatriates. The registration and transfer procedures are highly complex. They involve numerous cycles and stages requiring the input of several departments of the Public Service. In the entire country there are only three offices, BUJUMBURA, NGOZI and GITEGA to deal with the requests and take further action. It is therefore easy to understand their lack of interest in obtaining the documents when they are more concerned about satisfying certain basic needs;