The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
Village administrations take a cut, so the amount received by the peasants is often far less.
It takes time to conceive projects, move peasants, survey land, flatten mountains and pour cement.
Neither the socialist left nor the hard right wanted peasants to become property owners.
But many peasants have neither the know-how nor the money to make their case.
The old military regime used to herd peasants forcibly into collectives, with lethal results.
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When the peasants threatened the strike, the owners threatened to shut down the plantations.
Around him, other peasants suffering in similar conditions were joining guerrilla groups or paramilitary forces.
The programme requires contributions from peasants and provincial governments as well as the central government.
Witnesses said the attackers had denounced the peasants as sapos, rebel sympathisers, before killing them.
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Property rights are strengthening, as well the government is giving peasants formal title to their land.
Pro-coca arguments rely on the benign image of smiling peasants, their cheeks bulging with masticated leaves.
This month a dozen peasants are reported to have been killed, and several women raped.
But that is hardly surprising, given that so many were until recently Mexican peasants.
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To keep the factory workers and peasants happy, China must mobilise labour on a grand scale.
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The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of poor peasants and landless workers.
AWS, the Movement for Poland's Reconstruction, the Peasants' Party and a new force a pensioners' party.
"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.
These sometimes amount to 30-40% of peasants' incomes and are a main cause of growing rural discontent.
If they chose, the peasants could sell their land to other farmers and move to the cities.
Imprisoning a personality who is also known for articulating the grievances of peasants would not help them.
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Traditionally, its ethnic Monpa inhabitants offered fealty to Tibet's rulers which those aged peasants around Tawang also remember.
Pushkin has been cherished equally by Slavophiles and westernisers, by tsars and Communists, by peasants and aristocrats.
Cocaine, Britain's favourite hard drug, manufactured by peasants in a war zone, marketed by celebrities in nightclubs.
UNITA's policy is to drive peasants into the cities, so as to impose extra burdens on the government.
If there were no such uprisings, it means that you should exploit the peasants a little more aggressively.
Land reform was not a spontaneous uprising by black peasants, as Mugabe likes to portray it, Mayo says.
Because of the failure to price water properly, factory owners and peasants alike use too much of it.
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