land hunger

Congestion and land hunger were particularly acute in Lewis, because of the rapid population increase.

Moreover, peasant land hunger grew ever more acute as the population swelled.

The land hunger of the poor contributes to ecological devastation of fragile areas.

Before 1914, neither peasant land hunger nor working-class militancy were abating.

Still, the standoff has highlighted a degree of land hunger that had simmered largely unnoticed here.

But the problem endures, fueled by commercial logging, a regional yearning for economic development and a land hunger among refugees.

It cannot be understood without reference to the growing land hunger and militancy of millions of peasants.

The pressure of increasing population and consequent land hunger has made the people of this region thrifty.

His instructions were to maintain order and protect the Māori, while satisfying the land hunger of the settlers pouring into the country.

Not even the land hunger in Rwanda offers an explanation that makes it possible mentally to accommodate such a large-scale social aberration.

In sub-Saharan Africa, where land hunger is more rare, women tend to be left alone to cultivate and market their produce.

At the same time land prices soared in response to peasant land hunger, and the option of selling became increasingly attractive.

Goulburn provided insufficient outlets for Durack's energy, land hunger and organizing powers.

Their land hunger seemed insatiable!

Land hunger's been a goad in the Lescari wars for I don't know how long.'

In El Salvador, land hunger has been exacerbated by the tiny size of the country in relation to its population.

The reforms introduced after 1905 promised a solution to the rural poverty and land hunger which had brought peasant unrest to the surface in that year.

Land ownership and land hunger

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1945: Land Hunger in the Colonies

There was pent-up land hunger among younger men in New England, where topography and long settlement restricted buying land.

He is one of Zimbabwe's 170,000 new farmers, the proud owner of Land Hunger Farm.

The resulting land hunger increased prices 7 fold and made it easier for nobles to sell or rent land rather than farm it themselves.

One consequence of this is the widely recognised cultural phenomenon of "land hunger" amongst the new class of Irish farmer.

There is also a long tradition of migration, mostly to the United States, as people seek a better life and an escape from poverty and land hunger.