land reform
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- noun
- /lænd rɪˈfɔrm/
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reforma agraria
- Overall, the contributions in this issue seek to inform debates about land reform and development.
- land reform program
- neoliberal land reform
- redistributive land reform
All the while the Communists strengthened their hold over the peasantry with a combination of violence and land reform.
- All the while the Communists strengthened their hold over the peasantry with a combination of violence and land reform.
- The Tsar's new Prime Minister, Sterlipin, introduced land reforms to help the peasants while dealing severely with Russia's would be revolutionaries.
Examples
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Land reform policies aim to redistribute agricultural land to ensure fair access for all citizens.
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Second, the state instituted a far-reaching series of land reforms designed to redistribute income more equally.
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This is a land reform movement.
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Much has been learned from multiple experiences with land reform in widely different contexts.
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Southern Africa is another arena in which land reform has been at the core of geographical research.
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Structure and agency also play an important role in land-reform policy and practice.
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Clearly, geographers are approaching the study of land reform with creative ideas and rigorous methods.
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Finally, most literature on Latin American land reform focuses on agrarian contexts.
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For example, a community-driven but state-sanctioned form of land reform in northwestern Scotland has attracted noteworthy attention.
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Although it enunciated laudable goals, the first attempt at land reform (1994-1999) produced disappointing results.
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Synonyms
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4.5
To give things out again, often money or land, to make things fairer
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'reform' (a change or improvement) applied to 'land' yields the idea of changes to land policy or how land is owned/managed, which aligns with the definition of redistribution by government. This noun+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner knowing both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Land reform: The noun land reform comes from the simple idea of changing who owns land. It describes a reform where governments split big estates and give fields to small farmers, so it means 'giving agricultural land to more people'.