landlessness

This has led to landlessness, and many are now engaged as industrial labourers.

Despite these positive trends, the 1981 census pointed to an increasing problem of landlessness.

However, its benefits were confined to those already holding land, and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness.

In many places, those programs have become essential buffers against drought and landlessness.

Secondly, rising landlessness is also a consequence of poverty in Bangladesh.

Landlessness historically had been mitigated by the undeveloped nature of the eastern border region.

Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation.

Some historians trace Palestinian landlessness to Palestine's entry into the world economy in the 1880s.

During the 1970s, El Salvador suffered from landlessness, poverty, unemployment and overpopulation.

Such policies in countries like Guatemala where landlessness was prevalent led to anti-company dissent and inhibited land reform efforts.

Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.

Not only did many own no acreage at all, but landlessness has been increasing in rural Bangladesh along with the number of small and marginal farms.

This gave him a good opportunity to tackle the problem of landlessness of the peasantry of Giruvapattuva.

"Bald" would in this case be a tongue-in-cheek reference to his landlessness, at an age where his brothers already had been sub-kings for some years.

Deepening poverty and landlessness throughout the country has forced a compromise with cultural norms, said Mrs. Jahan.

"The other big question is poverty, which is huge and expressed in numberless ways, whether it is unemployment, homelessness, landlessness.

In other words, the landlessness is increasing at a faster rate among SCs and STs.

Anxious to avoid being blamed for Palestinian landlessness, British officials began imposing token restrictions on Jewish land purchase in 1940.

"In 1931, Lewis French conducted a survey of landlessness and eventually offered new plots to any Arabs who had been 'dispossessed'.

During the 1930s Palestinian Arab popular discontent with Jewish immigration and increasing Arab landlessness grew.

The rebellion had brought together urban nationalism and peasant economic grievances arising from rural poverty and landlessness, which was blamed on British misrule.

Land ownership and its correlate, landlessness, according to Landauer, are the roots of slavery, bondage, tribute, lease, interest and the proletariat.

The rich shrimp cultivators then buy the farms at throwaway prices, creating widespread landlessness and unemployment (as shrimp farming requires fewer workers than rice).

The peasant movement in El Salvador has developed through the peasants' own ability to organise and form a union in the face of growing landlessness and poverty.

Jewish migration to Palestine and widespread Jewish land purchases from feudal landlords led to landlessness among Palestinians and fueled unrest.