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Farming - general words
agricultural extension
agroecology
agroforestry
biodynamic
cultivate
emergence
homestead
hungry gap
hydroponic
hydroponically
inorganically
landrace
reap
the Agrarian Revolution
thrash
tillage
U-pick
unharvested
unsown
untillable

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Class & class-consciousness in general

landless | Business English

landless
adjective
uk /ˈlændləs/us
ECONOMICS, PROPERTY
used to describe people who do not have any land for farming, or who are prevented from owning the land that they farm:
The government has acquired large blocks of farmland for the resettlement of landless peasants.

Examples of landless

landless
At this point these societies were being transformed economically and socially, with a steady increase in the numbers of the landless.
Since the number of landless and semi-landless households grew, the number of servants from the nonpeasant group increased.
In his relations with farmers, the young man permitted himself greater latitude than the majority of landless workers.
This process may have occurred by incorporating landless "client" families or extended kin members.
However, human migrations, landless people, famine and fragmented landscapes speak for themselves.
Familial stability was at stake in class formation : landless laborers could scarcely be respectable husbands.
This is typical in areas where there are landlord-tenant relationships or a landless class employed in a local wage labour market.
The lawyers acting for the suspects had spoken of the tense relations between landless and landowners in the village to the examining magistrate.
Given their landless status, they are unaffected by the first-order effects of increasing productivity.
A large proportion of the households is landless.
However, this policy does commit special support to all landless or historically disadvantaged communities.
Its attempts to redistribute land to landless tillers were made to fail.
Care should be taken to include rural landless and other relatively disadvantaged groups in the sample.
We assume that landless labourers in rural farming leave for the frontier if income at the frontier is large relative to income in rural farming.
Strong kinship ties were developed among diverse classes, including the landless tribal women, which formed the major labour force for this technology.
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