Landless

Mugabe promised land to the 'landless' - and proceeded the parcel the land out to his senior loyalists - and even in some cases, the 'new' landowners have evicted the people living on that land. ❋ Robb (2010)

Fifteen years ago, he survived one of the deadliest land conflicts in Brazil, when police killed 10 of the so-called landless activists in an encampment on land they had occupied. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If they were somehow to make common cause with other restive rural-born Chinese, such as landless farmers or migrant workers, they'd be extremely hard to suppress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"It is more about the handing over of commercial agricultural land to the 'landless' and not about creating opportunities for emerging farmers as we are meant to believe." ❋ Unknown (2005)

His remarks came days before the deadline set by him for the conclusion of his so-called "revolutionary land reform programme" and the distribution of thousands of white-owned farms among allegedly "landless" Zimbabweans. ❋ Unknown (2002)

(I knew of no one in my school or among my friends and relations whose family had experienced the slightest problem during the entire famine; it was not a famine that afflicted even the lower middle classes - only people much further down the economic ladder, such as landless rural labourers.) ❋ Unknown (1999)

The concept behind Crop Mob is that "landless" people still take interest in food production and enjoy an occasional bit of manual labor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1970s Brazil, the Roman Catholic Church ran a few Pastoral Commissions - organisations designed to offer support and spiritual guidance to marginalised groups such as landless peasants, prison inmates and migrant workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Truth be told we live in 'day to day' kind of landless consumer serfdom I'd really like see abolished. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The British gave state lands, allocated for the "Jewish National Home," to those "landless" ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Vacation Village will feature a completely "landless" waterpark system that will eliminate queue lines and replace them with an "Endless Waterslide," which connects all of the waterslides end to end. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are food producers, such as landless laborers or small farm holders. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"landless" people would drive another two million out of work. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Two years ago, a thinktank, the New Economics Foundation came to Chagford and organised a meeting with farmers and residents and the landless young like Ed, and "one of the things that came out of this was that people wanted locally grown produce so I put my hand up and took it on," says Ed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Displaced by this farmland fire sale, the newly homeless and landless can be left without means to support themselves or their families. ❋ Tim Hanstad (2011)

As far as that is concerned, our patterns of response remain dominated by bureaucracies Experts say the Maoists are winning more recruits among landless laborers and tribal minorities on whose behalf they say they are fighting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[You’re] [Israeli]? Must be [hard] being landless ❋ Rawpali (2021)