Sentence examples for landless peasant from inspiring English sources

See articleThe leader of a landless peasant movement in Paraguay was murdered by two gunmen.

His father, Hussein al-Majid, a landless peasant, had died before his birth, and his mother, Sabha, could not support the orphan, until she took a third husband.

Since 1995, about 588,000 landless peasant families -- compared with less than half that number during the previous three decades -- have been resettled on homesteads.

As was the case in the 1990s, property was often claimed by politically connected individuals with little or no farming experience rather than by the landless peasant farmers or war veterans who were supposed to benefit from the redistribution program.

Landless peasant farmers or war veterans were supposed to be settled on the farmland, but property was often claimed by politically connected individuals without adequate farming experience who were not able to maintain productivity; this, along with drought conditions, greatly contributed to the decline of the agricultural sector and the country's general economy in the 2000s.

However, the fellaheen Bedouin (descendents of migrant landless peasant villagers who aligned themselves with the Bedouin as sharecroppers during the 19th century; see Dinero and Steven 2010) had perceived resettlement in the towns as an opportunity to gain liberation from feudal-like relations under the landlord Bedouin, as well as valued assets in the form of subsidized land lots.

Landless peasants moved abroad or to the cities instead.

Uncultivated land was to be redistributed among landless peasants.

The Roma of Vizuresti went from being slaves to being landless peasants.

He moved uphill to nearby Partinico, where he tried to organise landless peasants into co-operatives.

He launched a colonization program to settle landless peasants in the Petén.