landlessness
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- noun
- /ˈlændləsnəs/
- Many families in rural areas face landlessness due to lack of access to suitable farming land.
- rural landlessness
- poverty and landlessness
- rate of landlessness
Examples
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Local registries in rural areas foster landlessness.
Academic text (1998) -
If landlessness in rural Mexico increases as a result, soil and forest conservation will suffer.
Academic text (1994) -
The changes threatened them with landlessness.
Academic text (1991) -
Analytical work then included discussion of the problem of landlessness.
Academic text (1998) -
The number of farms increased, mean farm size declined considerably, and rural landlessness decreased.
Academic text (2002) -
The problem is not insurmountable, and the benefits of reducing rural poverty and landlessness through land reform are extensive.
Academic text (1998) -
We have focused on the question of rural landlessness in the sugar-producing regions since sugar became Puerto Rico's leading export.
Academic text (2002) -
Many play an important part in the struggle, which has been going on for generations, to eradicate poverty and landlessness and to construct democracy in Chiapas.
Academic text (1996) -
Beekeeping is a mechanism that can help address the employment challenges created by a growing population and increasing landlessness (Ntenga and Mugongo 1991).
Academic text (1998) -
When these data on rural landlessness are compared with the situation prevailing in 1910, the striking changes contradict any and all previous analytical conclusions.
Academic text (2002)
Antonyms
How Landed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Landlessness comes from the simple parts land ('ground' or 'property') and -less ('without'), like in homeless. So landlessness means 'no land', which is why it describes people who do not own land to farm or live on.