Sentence examples for concentrated land from inspiring English sources

Plainly, Roosevelt's bill restored prices, concentrated land in the hands of the few, and perpetuated the rise of agribusiness.

Conversely, restricting sprawl while, at the same time, adopting a more concentrated land use pattern, lowers the odds of tornado impact and disaster.

We demonstrate that policy changes which incentivize forestry investments have reduced cultivated agricultural lands and native forest, and concentrated land in the hands of global agribusiness corporations.

The number of active pre-conditions is quite stunning, from elite isolation to concentrated wealth to inadequate socialisation and education, to concentrated land holdings to loss of authority to repression of new technologies especially in relation to energy, to the atrophy of the public sector and spread of corruption, to media dishonesty, to mass unemployment of young men and on and on and on".

"But these ill-gotten gains were protected by acts which maintained their hegemony after the rest of Europe ditched feudalism and concentrated land ownership". He describes how the aristocracy embraced the 1560 Reformation as a means of getting their hands on land belonging to the "Auld Kirk".

Transformational reform, he says, "is not just about breaking up concentrated land holdings or redistributing land but about breaking down the systems that created them, like feudalism, communism, or capitalism". Populist reform, on the other hand, focuses solely on breaking up large land holdings to redistribute to small holders.

Above it all, the old aristocracy is more secure than ever in a country with the most concentrated private land ownership in Europe, according to Philip Lowe, professor of rural economy at Newcastle University.

The most concentrated commercial land ownership is in Brent, where All Souls College, one of Oxford's wealthiest, owns more than 300 properties.

Brazil has one of the most concentrated levels of land ownership in the world.

Erosional Quaternary periods allowed for the formation of condensed pedostratigraphies by which surface clasts and lithics were mixed and concentrated on the land surface.

The reason is that Tokyo is transforming itself, becoming more concentrated now that land prices have sunk to economically sensible levels.