land redistribution
Reallocating territory ownership
Land redistribution is the transfer of land ownership from large holders to those with little or none, typically through government policy.
It often aims to address historical inequities—colonial seizure, feudal concentration, or racial dispossession.
Methods range from compensated purchase to outright expropriation: The land redistribution program gave farms to formerly landless peasants.
The term appears in debates about South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Latin American agrarian reform.
- agrarian reformRedistributing agricultural land ownership
- land reformRedistributing agricultural holdings
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
- landed gentryLandowning class living on rents
- communal landCollectively owned territory
ancestral lands · colonialism · eminent domain · collective farming · subsistence farming · title deeds · property rights · landlessness · forty acres · tenant farmers · reparations · Homestead Act · socialism · peasant revolts · parcels · wealth distribution · deeds · land ownership
- reallocationsmoney transfer, wealth transfer
- Chinese Civil WarCCP, Kuomintang, Communist Party, Nationalists, Mao Zedong
- ejido systemcommunal land, agrarian reform, communal ownership, Emiliano Zapata, campesino
- land reformland reform, agrarian reform, land distribution, land seizures, land policy
- land tenurefreehold, leasehold, land ownership, tenancy, tenure system
- rural policyland reform, rural development, farm subsidies, agricultural subsidies, tenant rights
land redistributionenclosure
Confined, bordered space
land grabbing · privatization · deregulation · plantation system
land redistributionenclosure movement
Privatization of communal farmland
Highland Clearances · dispossession · land seizure · plantation system · serfdom