Another type of early impact relates to dispossession and forced displacement of small farmers, pastoralists and indigenous peoples.

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As a result of the engineers' work, land titles were definite, and settlers could develop the land without fear of dispossession.

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Seated on the floor in the home of a local benefactor, a group of refugees from Homs and surrounding villages recount disturbingly similar stories of violent dispossession.

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There are green reasons for the Kols' impending dispossession.

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You must go by the way of dispossession.

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With a keen sense of dispossession, I wandered out of the neighborhood to find someplace to sleep, and discovered that I had barely begun to use the resources available to me when I came upon an undeveloped piece of land as wild as I could wish.

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In a country trying to heal the wounds of hundreds of years of land dispossession and forced relocation, many people have come to blame outsiders with pockets full of British pounds or euros for pushing up prices, driving locals out of the housing market, or turning farmland into private game parks.

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