Sentence examples for The smallholdings from inspiring English sources

Squash, corn and beans were growing nicely around the smallholdings.

Bigger and more prolific than their native predecessors, the imported boar thrived as farmland was abandoned, leaving the smallholdings typical of Italian agriculture vulnerable.

Farmers have begun to fence off the smallholdings the state has allocated them with barbed wire in the hope of selling them.

For example, although 12 acres (5 hectares) was generally regarded as the minimum necessary to maintain an average family, that was the maximum size of the smallholdings that accounted for two-thirds of landownership in Yugoslavia in the early 1930s.

By the Smallholdings Law of 1918 and by land reform in 1922, which allowed the expropriation of estates of more than 495 acres (200 hectares), an attempt was made to give tenant farmers and landless labourers their own smallholdings.

Her refuge, above a cluster of grubby, temporary tents and encircled by the smallholdings of rape victims, feels vulnerable, a world away from the brightly lit world stage where Hague aspired to combat sexual violence in conflict.

I was put to work on the smallholding that we had in Cheshire.

"The smallholding was located near the town of Holsworthy, in Devon, England, not far from the Cornish coast.

The smallholding, a collection of low-slung, ancient stone buildings hunkering among vines and olive groves, was beautiful.

Faced with uncertainties on their land rights, the smallholding subsistence farmers who form the backbone of Ethiopian agriculture became reluctant to risk producing surplus foods for market.

They are also keen to learn about the smallholding, how we live and what tips we have on growing vegetables or keeping chickens.