The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
It takes time to conceive projects, move peasants, survey land, flatten mountains and pour cement.
But many peasants have neither the know-how nor the money to make their case.
When the peasants threatened the strike, the owners threatened to shut down the plantations.
The programme requires contributions from peasants and provincial governments as well as the central government.
But that is hardly surprising, given that so many were until recently Mexican peasants.
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"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.
If they chose, the peasants could sell their land to other farmers and move to the cities.
Pushkin has been cherished equally by Slavophiles and westernisers, by tsars and Communists, by peasants and aristocrats.
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.
That changed on June 15, when police clashed with landless peasants in eastern Paraguay, resulting in 17 deaths.
Back in the early 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville noted that American farmers viewed their holdings more like capitalists than peasants.
In the high altiplano, poor peasants depend for much of their water on the slow melting of snow.
It was the easiest solution, and created a practical, flexible and adaptable peasants' language in about 150 years.
Discontent with Stronismo, as Paraguayans called it, was shared by groups as diverse as landless peasants and poorly-paid doctors.
Han prescribes credit and tax incentives in combination with technical advice and training to help peasants make rational choices.
It has also paid peasants more than the law obliged for their land.
Already, as the waters recede, Mozambican peasants have been rushing back to plant beans and maize in the silt.
In all poor countries, city-dwellers are better informed, and less deferential, than peasants.
And life for peasants is getting better, albeit not nearly as fast as it is for Maputo's bankers and restaurateurs.
The enclosure of common land was seeing the eviction of peasants from the fields that lay between them and starvation.
Lacking regular supply lines, the rebels subsist on goats, onions and the occasional bit of salt donated by friendly peasants.
It provides social services, as well as spiritual sustenance, for millions of conservative peasants and townspeople in Anatolia, Turkey's heartland.
He cut a dashing figure in his fatigues and red beret, and peasants at all-night rallies found his oratory entrancing.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
But this is hard to pull off in weak states teeming with peasants in search of somewhere to plant their crops.
Privatisations, especially of banks, are again in swing, though the Peasants' Party continues to trip up foreign investors when it can.
Mr. Shi grew up the son of peasants in China's Sichuan province.
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