Sentence examples for concentration of land from inspiring English sources
The concentration of land ownership is speeding up.
How do you arrest the concentration of land into the hands of the few, when it's moving so fast?
The concentration of land in the hands of the rich is a prime source of conflict.
Subsequent rulers, however, were unable to meet the problems caused by increased population pressure and concentration of land ownership.
But in Alentejo, the concentration of land in few hands before 1974 resembled that of many Latin American countries.
The concentration of land ownership is rising faster than at any time since the enclosures of the early 19th Century: 2% a year in England.
"Governments do it in response to rural unrest, or to undermine revolutionary movements that challenge the state". Often after populist land reforms there is a re-concentration of land holdings, which then requires another round of land redistribution.
None of the new research was done in Britain, which has some of the highest concentrations of land ownership anywhere in the world, with 70% of land reportedly owned by less than 1% of the population.
Today, after two centuries of consolidation and enclosure, there are only 1,200 farms in the Lake District, and Britain as a whole has one of the world's highest concentrations of land ownership.
The most interesting aspect of the cartography of voting shows that those who suffered direct effects of the conflict in some of the poorest parts of the country with extreme concentrations of land were the most willing to vote yes.
