You can quickly see how a parcel of land can produce multiple owners over just a couple of generations. Once you get many owners, it becomes harder to agree on what to do with the land and get financing for initiatives. The volume of land that we're talking about here is large. It's 5 percent of the total land mass of New Zealand, comprising 1.4 million hectares—or 27,000 blocks—that are held as Māori land, and much of it is underutilised.