landless in English

adjective
1
(especially of an agricultural worker) owning no land.
With a large population of landless agricultural workers, the pressure on land is enormous.

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1. One focus is to increase incomes of the absolute poor, including landless labourers and subsistence farmers.

2. Arévalo was succeeded by Árbenz in 1951, who instituted popular land reforms which granted property to landless peasants.

3. Now , the landless Ali has left Jamila with her parents and moved to Gujarat to earn a livelihood .

4. The PRP promised to implement land reforms and allot two to 5 acres (20,000 m2) of land for landless poor.

5. Also, all the unskilled laborers, that is daily wage earners, mostly landless, are given an opportunity to be trained as masons and plumbers.

6. Agrarian reforms are sometimes regarded as affirmative action policies as well when favouring indigenous populations in Latin America or landless and small farmers.

7. Dressed in rags and barefoot, a Muslim peasant presents the appearance of a starving beggar...Most are landless laborers, working as serfs for absentee landlords...

8. The great majority—75 percent—of the chronically underfed live in rural areas of developing countries. They are landless , frequently unemployed or employed at very low wages.

9. Hung and Hanh were both active supporters of the petitioners' movement called Victims of Injustice, which helps impoverished workers and landless farmers seek redress from the government.

10. The "land to the tiller" reform redistributed the bulk of agricultural land to the poor and landless peasant population, effectively breaking the power of the landed class.

11. While power and wealth were vested in a small landholding elite in Ireland, subsistence was the lot of the three million landless labourers and Cottiers whose lives were intimately linked to the

12. ‘The tenants, she noted, were a varied group, comprising farmers with large holdings, smallholders and at the bottom of the pile the landless Cottiers and labourers, many of whom disappeared without trace in the middle of the 19th century.’

13. Approximately 14,000 participants engaged in the process, including government officials, representatives of women’s movements, child and adolescent rights activists, disabled persons, Afro-Brazilians and members of quilombo communities, sexual diversity activities, senior citizens, environmentalists, landless persons, the homeless, members of indigenous groups, followers of Afro-Brazilian religions, Roma, members of river and coastal communities, and others.