Sentence examples for small peasant from inspiring English sources

"Many athletes come from poor backgrounds, small peasant farming communities.

Small peasant farmers tended to till the lighter, less-productive, more easily worked soils.

American agricultural subsidies are seen by some as crushing small peasant farmers and stifling competition.

Other crops, also mostly grown in lowland areas on small peasant landholdings, are corn (maize), cassava, peanuts (groundnuts), soybeans, and sweet potatoes.

The accompanying text criticized the local culture: "With hundreds and thousands of years of feudal peasant habits, there is a pronounced trend toward small peasant thinking..

Instead of some 120,000 small peasant farms that existed in 1945, there were by the 1990s about 190 collectivized farms and more than 120 state farms.

In between stood the economist Virgil Madgearu, who advocated a "third way" of development, neither capitalist nor collectivist but rooted in small-scale peasant agriculture.

In agriculture small-scale peasant farming, still largely on the subsistence principle, remains predominant; and the many signs now visible of enterprise and expansion in Arab industry conform to the same pattern of strong individualism.

On the contrary, he says, collectivisation was a wild gamble – a move arising out of Stalin's conviction that Russia could not achieve socialism without doing away with small-scale peasant farming.

The small-scale peasant economy has been the fundamental way of life for the Han ethnicity up till now, and the Han have not yet rid themselves of their legendary ancestor Shen Nong's shadow.

The colonial legal system favoured zamindars, landlords and rich peasants against small peasants, who could not go to colonial courts due to heavy legal costs.