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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This shift led to progressive reforms such as taxation, land reform, and expanded collective bargaining rights.
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Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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
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Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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
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“Land reform.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land%20reform. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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