Smallholdings

Word SMALLHOLDINGS
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What do we mean by smallholdings?

A piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or the breeding of animals.

A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20-49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).

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The word "smallholdings" in example sentences

: Murders on farms and smallholdings: name ... updated upon December 6 2009 ❋ Admin (2009)

The novel's Cold Harbour Colony, the ex-servicemen's colony of smallholdings, is based on Sunk Island, the area of Holderness that rose from the waters of the Humber, while Robert Carne's decaying Maythorpe Hall was inspired by the White Hall in Winestead, which Holtby would have observed, shuttered and derelict, as a passenger on the Hull-Withernsea railway. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Crofting is a distinctive Scottish land tenure system in which smallholdings are held in tenancy, and there are rights to use common grazing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With 85% of the world's farmland held in smallholdings of two hectares or less, many countries are nervous of foreign investors looking to build large land banks that disrupt rural life. ❋ Andrew Peaple (2011)

: Murders on farms and smallholdings: name ... skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Admin (2009)

The "married"-ness refers to the incredible harmony between pork and bitter greens – a marriage made in the muck of smallholdings rather than the heavens, but special and sacred nonetheless. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But in Devon, as elsewhere, smallholdings are now so expensive they're bought by downsizing bankers rather than young would-be farmers Chagford even boasts its own celebrity residents: Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson and what this means is that the likes of Ed and his classmates are struggling to find a way to stay in the place they grew up in. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We need to facilitate production and stimulate our people's entrepreneurial capacity, from the large corporations down to the small local businesses, from big agribusiness to family-run smallholdings. ❋ Adam J. Rose (2011)

These days, the forest is a queer mix of high-priced executive piles clinging to the railway line, and "commoners", several hundred of them, with smallholdings – some as old as the Domesday Book. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A queer mix of high-priced executive piles and commoners with smallholdings ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are similarities to Scottish crofting townships – smallholdings with rough pastures, old fences in need of repair, livestock grazing by the shore, odd bits of disused machinery, and a sense of life reduced to simple necessities. ❋ Gavin Bell (2010)

A further 1,795 ha comprise private smallholdings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In seeking local food security, then, we may be quite confident that the encouragement of diverse smallholdings -- backyard gardens, SPIN farms, family farms -- practising polyculture rather than monoculture, is a sound, practical, and realistic strategy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We talked about suburban sprawl and ag-industrial moonscapes while walking down a most quintessentially perfect lane of family dairies, woodlots, smallholdings and hedged pastures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"What I have seen here, I will tell the world in words and in songs," Myriam Makeba promised women with smallholdings on the banks of the Congo, then threw aside her cane for a spontaneous song in the sand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The 11 smallholdings between the Congo and the Makelele river are among a range of projects backed by Alpi, which is currently caring for ❋ Unknown (2008)

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