land reform

noun

: measures designed to effect a more equitable distribution of agricultural land especially by governmental action

also : the resulting redistribution

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The 2016 peace agreement had included promises by the state to advance rural development, undertake land reform and reparations for victims of the half-century conflict, and offer crop substitutions for farmers of coca, the raw material for the production of cocaine. —

Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024 His tenure in Congress was most noted by his opposition to the president, fellow Tennessean Andrew Jackson, on land reform issues and the Indian Removal bill. —

arkansasonline.com, 27 Apr. 2024 When the series pays lip service to the consequences of land reform in Zimbabwe and South Africa, those are real issues that have had real global consequences that The Regime is completely unable to grapple with in a justifiably real way. —

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024 Why tackle such a large subject as land reform in what appears to be a children’s film? —

Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for land reform