agricultural reform

Changing land policies

Agricultural reform refers to changes in laws, policies, or practices governing farming and land use.

Reform efforts typically address land ownership and distribution, farming methods, or market access for farmers.

The term often implies making agriculture more equitable or efficient: The government promised agricultural reform to help small farmers compete with agribusiness.

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policy direction

agricultural reformplantation economy

Agricultural system exploiting enslaved workers

serfdom · landlordism · enclosure

economic sector focus

agricultural reformindustrial policy

Government guidance of production

industrialization · urban development · industrial development · urban renewal · factory system

change vs. stasis

agricultural reformtraditional farming

Age-old cultivation methods

landed aristocracy

Family

reform, agriculture

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