These sometimes amount to 30-40% of peasants' incomes and are a main cause of growing rural discontent.
Imprisoning a personality who is also known for articulating the grievances of peasants would not help them.
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The enclosure of common land was seeing the eviction of peasants from the fields that lay between them and starvation.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
Mr. Shi grew up the son of peasants in China's Sichuan province.
When middlemen say they have delivered so many bags of rice to so many thousands of peasants, there is no way to tell if they are lying.
In February, hundreds of peasants clashed with police outside Hanoi.
Discontent over mismanagement and oppressive behavior on the part of the Chinese government has manifested itself in thousands of cases of peasants using force against tax collectors over the last few years.
Organizations like the Mostazafan serve as giant cash boxes, he says, to pay off supporters of the mullahs, whether they're thousands of peasants bused in to attend religious demonstrations in Tehran or Hezbollah thugs who beat up students.
She has been a "super-inclusive politician", gaining the support of peasants, intellectuals, the urban jobless and the working class - precisely the alliance the communists managed to forge before their hold on power began unravelling a few years ago.
The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
He said the attack, repelled by government soldiers, signalled the growing presence of Hutu rebels in the region as well as the complicity with rebel activity of Hutu peasants, who make up more than 80% of Burundi's population.
Pro-coca arguments rely on the benign image of smiling peasants, their cheeks bulging with masticated leaves.
The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.
It is not every day a son of Bongha peasants ends up in the Blue House in Seoul.
It provides social services, as well as spiritual sustenance, for millions of conservative peasants and townspeople in Anatolia, Turkey's heartland.
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.
The water that fills the canal's locks flows from nearby rivers where the children of indigenous peasants swim naked during school hours.
Worse still, most of the peasants in question including the raped women were Muslims.
Not surprisingly, there are calls for deeper and more wide-ranging reforms that will help put more power in the hands of the peasants.
The romantic model being promoted by Time and agri-intellectuals like Michael Pollan hearkens back to European and Tolstoyan notions of small family farms run by generations of happy peasants.
The explicitly anti-Shia Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions), born in southern Punjab in 1985, took up the cause of Sunni peasants in a region dominated by large Shia landowners.
The scion of a long line of illiterate peasants and benefit scroungers, he was born in Leeds, educated in Worcestershire and took a degree (in English, although it does not sound to be his first language) at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
While no serious injuries were reported, some of the local peasants worried that the tissue of the sky itself had ruptured, leaving them dangerously exposed to further celestial attack.
Several years ago, in return for taking in some of Tawa's peasants relocated as part of a poverty-alleviation scheme, it was given rights to the mountainous estate.
The Sichuan government reported in 2010 that in Aba county, another centre of unrest, most peasants were getting up to nine-tenths of their income from it, at the expense of traditional herding and farming.
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