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.
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.
This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
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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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.
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.
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.
Landless and destitute, they settled on the lands of the raja of Shankargarh and took up a strenuous but simple trade: smashing rock into gravel.
During his time with the MST, Mr Rainha had close links to the former President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose party the landless movement supported.
The farmers, who were interested in developing community seed banks and strengthening family farming, met with the Brazilian Landless Peasant Movement (known by its Portuguese acronym MST).
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Land reform might help ease tensions in the countryside, but the government does not have the cash to turn many of the landless rural poor into smallholders.
The trial began of 150 policemen accused of killing 19 protesters during a 1996 demonstration by Brazil's landless - farmers movement in the northern state of Para.
Venezuela has nothing like Brazil's large and well-organised landless movement.
He had been in contact with Brazil's militant Landless Movement.
The implausible alliance between landed and landless castes (in some parts of Bihar, Ranbir Sena and its victims) is likely to make more sense to politicians than to the people.
Indigenous movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the CONAIE in Ecuador, the radical indigenous movement in Chile, and the landless movement in Brazil represent examples of more independent movements.
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