agrarian reform
Farmland ownership changes
Agrarian reform is the redistribution of agricultural land, typically from large landowners to peasants or small farmers.
The term encompasses government policies that break up concentrated land holdings, establish ownership rights for those who work the land, and restructure rural economies: The revolution promised agrarian reform to landless peasants.
Programs vary from gradual buyouts to outright seizure.
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- land rightsLegal claims to territory
- land ownershipPossessing property rights
- property rightsLegal control over possessions
land redistribution · landless peasants · socialism · land grants · estate division · indigenous land claims · land acquisition · subsistence farming · cash crops · peasant farming · communal land · collective farming · fields · grassroots organizing · food security · land titles · peasants · small holdings
agrarian reformindustrial policy
Government guidance of production
industrialization · urbanization · urban development · industrial development · urban renewal
agrarian reformenclosure
Confined, bordered space
landlordism · collectivization · plantation system · feudalism · land grabbing