The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
They are mostly jobless and landless, and they are often informally barred from villages.
Thousands of landless poor are clamoring for plots to slash and burn for plantations.
Mr Rainha, 50, is accused of funnelling public money away from landless families, which he denies.
Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of tribal people and the landless poor.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.
Often the farmer is from a higher caste (Brahmin), the laborers from a landless lower caste (Dalit).
The government's aim is to resettle landless Namibians on this land on a "willing buyer, willing seller" arrangement.
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That changed on June 15, when police clashed with landless peasants in eastern Paraguay, resulting in 17 deaths.
He was a leader of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement until he set up a parallel organisation in 2007.
Discontent with Stronismo, as Paraguayans called it, was shared by groups as diverse as landless peasants and poorly-paid doctors.
He was found close to his home in a settlement for landless rural workers near the town of Pacaja.
The rest are either subsistence farmers on plots of land that get tinier with each generation, or landless labourers.
The large-scale appropriation of farmland in recent years for housing and factory construction has rendered millions of farmers landless.
This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
Lugo has long "flirted" with groups of landless peasants who are prone to violence, culminating in the recent clash, Acha said.
Some countries those in West Africa which import their staples, or Bangladesh, with its huge numbers of landless labourers risk ruin and civil strife.
One of the founders of the landless movement in Brazil, Jose Rainha Junior, has been arrested on suspicion of misappropriating public funds.
The MST campaigns for land reform and the rights of landless workers and is considered the best organised social movement in Brazil.
There is little or nothing in these promises for the landless labourers.
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Those without the landless, the urban poor and the illiterate are being left behind.
In West Bengal it is working with the government to provide landless families who have daughters and no sons, with micro-plots of land.
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The sugar plant has been at the centre of a long-running legal battle between the landless and the heirs of its deceased owner.
The central issue behind the impeachment trial was a June 15 incident in which police clashed with landless peasants, resulting in 17 deaths.
It also wants to turn some fallow or confiscated land over to landless people, as a way to reduce Colombia's high unemployment rate.
The actual process of transferring ownership of land from farmers to landless people is a lengthy, complex one and is unlikely to proceed quickly.
Like residents of the slums of third-world cities, many are landless peasants, a group now estimated at 70 million or 80 million.
This has led to fears that individuals who own land may lose it to the government as it redistributes it to the landless and squatters.
Founded in 1984, the MST, which campaigns for land reform and the rights of landless workers, is considered the best organised social movement in Brazil.
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