Brazil's military rulers saw the region as a safety valve for the overpopulation, landlessness and poverty in the country's crowded coastal region; they also feared that a thinly inhabited Amazon was an invitation to foreign invaders.In their attempt to give "the land without people to the people without land", the authorities colonised the region and built roads and schools.
But so far only a small fraction of the millions of rural households entitled to claim the deeds to their land have actually received them.The World Bank is helping the government to speed up the issuing of deeds, but it worries that landlessness is still getting worse.
Prosperity muted African protest in the early years of federation, although dissent mounted in the impoverished reserves of Southern Rhodesia, where disaffection was fueled by attempts to restructure peasant production at a time of growing landlessness and congestion on inferior land.
Yes, the greatest dilemmas facing humanity are still landlessness, homelessness, and hunger... but today our televisions and newspapers tell us about these fundamental problems more quickly and more simply than literature ever could.
He broaches the novel in quirky thematic fashion, with gracefully written compact essays on topics like landlessness, chowder and sharks.
But, activists say, the program is too narrow to help a large number of people and doesn't solve the fundamental problem of landlessness.
But microplots are a feasible cure for landlessness when more ambitious programs have failed.
She said the work of the Rural Development Institute, the first Kravis Prize recipient, has become a case study at the Stanford Business School for how it addressed rural landlessness in India.
My immediate reaction was that it certainly sounded as though the issue of deep poverty related to landlessness was a huge one, but if you tried to solve it that way you would likely end up with civil war instead of land reform.
While their films targeted mass audiences, they were known for exceptional, restrained acting, lilting music and classic photography, and presented social ills like untouchability and landlessness, as well as personal angst and loneliness, with rare integrity and maturity.
"The presence of palm oil plantations has spawned a new poverty and is triggering a crisis of landlessness and hunger.
