Land Reform

Definition: Land Reform

Land Reform

Noun

1. A redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Land Reform

Crosswords: Land Reform

Books

• After Socialism: Land Reform and Rural Social Change in Eastern Europe (New Directions in Anthropology, Vol 6) (reference)

• Ethiopia: Failure of Land Reform and Agricultural Crisis (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) (reference)

• Land Reform in Japan (reference)

• Land Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (reference)

• Land Reform Under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe: Land Use Change in the Mashonaland Provinces (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

The slow progress of the South African Government in addressing its own land reform programs, has created a measure of uneasiness amongst organized agriculture in South Africa and degree of uncertainty for the future. (references)

Civil Liberties

Brazil

According to INCRA (the government agency charged with implementing land reform), there were only 146 invasions by landless militants during the year compared with 226 in 2000, which indicates that the large amount of land that has been distributed by the Federal Government may have contributed to decreasing the activities of the landless movement. (references)

Economic History

Iran

The core of this program was land reform. (references)

Russia

Attempts at economic reform, such as land reform, were incomplete. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The ruling gave the Government until July 1 to establish a legal land reform program. (references)

Zimbabwe

There is widespread public support for land reform; however, there are problems with implementation of the Land Acquisition Act (Land Act). (references)

Brazil

During a protest in 1999 by land reform activists over a proposed increase in the toll for a privatized rural road, police in the city of Boituva, Sao Paulo State, arrested six persons for allegedly damaging and stealing from toll booths. (references)

Political Economy

Brazil

Rural violence, including killings of land reform and rural labor activists, persisted. (references)

RUSSIA

Despite the progress on some structural reforms, much additional work remains in key areas such as banking reform, judicial reforms, corporate governance, agricultural land reform, and changes needed to bring Russia's legislation into line with WTO requirements. (references)

ROMANIA

Among them: _ the continued pervasive state presence, including in acquisition prices, state management of a large proportion of arable land, state ownership of input supply, storage, marketing, and agro-processing enterprises; _ incomplete land reform which has left many fragmented holdings, for which property rights are still not well-defined; _ limited financial services, few private input suppliers, and little extension services; _ agricultural coupons for tiled lands that arrive too late to be helpful for agricultural production. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Currently the IFC is working on four technical assistance projects in Ukraine: divestiture of unfinished construction sites (financed by the United States Agency for International Development - USAID), corporate governance (financed by the Canadian Agency for International Development, the British Know How Fund and the Government of Japan), business development (financed by USAID), and land reform (financed by the Canadian Agency for International Development, the governments of the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and the British Know How Fund). (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Human rights groups and land reform activists criticized a jury verdict in June in Paraiba absolving a landowner of guilt in the 1983 slaying of rural labor leader Margarida Maria Alves. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Danish

landbrugsreform (agrarian reform). (various references)

Dutch

landbouwhervorming (agrarian reform, agrarian revolution), agrarische hervorming (agrarian reform). (various references)

Finnish

maareformin kannattaja (advocate of land reform). (various references)

French

réforme agraire. (various references)

German

bodenreform, bodenrechtsreform, Agrarreform (agrarian reform). (various references)

Greek 

αγροτική μεταρρύθμιση (agrarian reform). (various references)

Italian

riforma agraria (agrarian reform). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

土地�"�革 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とちかいかく. (various references)

Pig Latin

andlay eformray

Portuguese

reforma agrária (agrarian reform, land tax), recuperação de terras. (various references)

Spanish

reforma agraria (agrarian reform). (various references)

Swedish

jordreform. (various references)

Turkish

toprak reformu. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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