When the Mexican revolution began in 1910, some 2, 000 families owned 87% of the rural land.
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Much of China's rural land is still collectively owned, one of the last remaining communist principles to survive intact.
In Chongqing only 10% of the government's annual sales of undeveloped rural land are subject to the dipiao system.
Mortgaging rural land or even selling one's own house to non-villagers is banned.
Such measures could also help ease the government's worries about the loss of food security arising from the rapid encroachment on rural land.
It would help if farmers could sell or mortgage their rural land and use the money to help gain a stronger foothold in the cities.
The value of rural land in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand increased sharply when people were given title deeds, because owners were more willing to invest.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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Premier Wen spoke of the need to improve the security of rural land rights and the need to deregulate the financial sector by finding a way to legalize what is now an underground finance market.
It fears that creating a free market in rural land would prompt peasants to sell their holdings to pay their debts, sending an avalanche of landless farmers to cities that have no social-security infrastructure to deal with them.
Even if Tawa does hold its auction, it will do little to change perceptions about how problematic rural land reform is proving, and how little the party is really doing to tackle it, for all the Central Committee's encouraging words.
Having dealt with the cities and towns, they launched a massive rural land grab, evicting millions of black South Africans from the fields and pastures on which they had lived for generations and offering in exchange enclaves carved from the least-fertile acreage in the country.
Other suggestions include extending rural community land buy-out rights to large towns and cities.
Local officials can convert collectively owned rural plots into land for private development.
The police said the couple had been opposing the eviction of rural workers from land owned by a local farmer.
The Bowers arrived and walked along a chain link fence that borders the rural patch of land where the airliner crashed.
His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.
"We have to take note of these cultural influences, " said Dr Cassidy, whose research was funded by Nerc, the BBSRC. and the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, which is itself part-funded by Defra.
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The project uses aerial photographs known as ortho-imagery to produce the maps, and is being delivered as a joint project between the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Land and Property Services (previously known as the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland).
India has historically been a land of rural farmers and it still is.
India has, in fact, large tracts of open land in rural areas.
Some Chinese scholars suggest curbing the powers of rural governments to appropriate land, and giving individual peasants the right to trade it, mortgage it or keep it indefinitely.
Until recently, the woes of the traditional family farms in the south, combined with the shift to huge, mechanised estates in the cerrado, had prompted an increase in rural unemployment, and land invasions.
The latter includes everything from encouraging preservation of erosion-vulnerable land to promoting rural economic diversification (think tourism) to more humane treatment of farm animals.
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The quasi-governmental Rural Development Center suggests extending land-use contracts for 100 years and allowing people to pass the right to farm the land on to their children.
The school bus is the big yellow kind, exactly the same as the one Liz once rode to elementary school, in that faraway place, that faraway land known as rural Ohio.
Rather than breaking up big farms, he has speeded up the granting of land titles to rural squatters and bought up private holdings to sell on easy terms to those who lack plots.
With one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, the result, in large part, of a rural, cashless subsistence economy, land reform is one of Namibia's most hotly contested issues.
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But critics say that despite the rich resources that bring billions of dollars annually, the wealth is not trickling down to the rural poor who live on the land where the gold is mined.
Fourth is education, which is not only failing to prepare the rural poor for work off the land, but is also no longer equipping enough talented young graduates with the skills that have fuelled the services boom.
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