land reforms
Property ownership changes
Land reforms are government policies that redistribute agricultural land, typically from large landowners to peasants or tenant farmers.
The term usually implies breaking up concentrated holdings to create more equitable ownership: The revolution promised sweeping land reforms.
Land reform programs have been central to political movements from post-war Japan to Latin American populism, often contentious because they challenge existing property rights.
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- eminent domainForced government land acquisition
- poverty alleviationReducing extreme economic need
- property rightsLegal control over possessions
- estate divisionAllocating a decedent's property
cooperative farming · collective ownership · British Raj · tenant farmers · tenancy · title deeds · sharecroppers · rent collection · socialism · deeds · peasants · smallholders · adverse possession · tillage · hacienda · absentee landlords · estates · acreage
- Nepal Historyunification, Gurkhas, federal republic, hereditary rule, palace coup
- Ottoman ReformsTanzimat reforms, secularization, military reforms, tax reforms, banking reforms
- Danish HistoryViking Age, Viking era, German occupation, Nazi occupation, Copenhagen
- Roman Republicconsul, Roman Republic, veto power, senator, sacrosanctity
- Asuka PeriodChinese influence, wall paintings, pagodas, Fujiwara, diplomatic missions
- Bengal HistoryBengal Renaissance, colonial rule, Calcutta, Kolkata, Dhaka
land reformsfeudalism
Land-for-service social structure
feudal estates · landed aristocracy · serfdom · landlordism · plantation system
land reformsancien régime
Replaced system of governance
primogeniture · colonial plantations · bonded labor · peonage