Definition of Landlessness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being landless. ¹

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Definition of Landlessness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landlessness

landing skids
landing stage
landing strips
landing vehicle tracked
landing vehicles tracked
landings
landladies
landlady
landladyish
landleaper
landleapers
landler
landlers
landless
landlessness
landlessnesses
landline
landlines
landlocked
landlocked salmon
landloper
landlopers
landlord
landlord's lien
landlordism
landlordisms
landlordless
landlordry
landlords

Literary usage of Landlessness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nutrition and Development by Margaret R. Biswas, Per Pinstrup-Andersen (1985)
"Rural poverty and landlessness in Pakistan, in Poverty and landlessness in rural Asia. ILO, Geneva. Palmer, I. (1977). Rural poverty in Indonesia with ..."

2. Linkages Between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in Rural India by Shenggen Fan, Peter Hazell, Sukhadeo Thorat (1999)
"The estimated equation (12) for the incidence of rural landlessness shows that growth in TFP does lead to an increase in landlessness. ..."

3. Waging the Global War on Poverty: Strategies and Case Studies by Raundi Halvorson-Quevedo, Hartmut Schneider (2000)
"In a participatory poverty assessment survey landlessness was ranked by peasant farmers among the top five poverty issues (Opio, ..."

4. Poverty, Household Food Security, and Nutrition in Rural Pakistan by Harold Alderman, Marito Garcia (1993)
"However, since 38 percent of the households are landless, this indicates that landlessness is not a precise screening mechanism. ..."

5. Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia by Ponna Wignaraja (1991)
"The evidence suggests that the incidence of landlessness is still high in South Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka and India. Moreover, there appears to be a ..."

6. Employment for Poverty Reduction and Food Security by Joachim Von Braun (1995)
"Because of land shortage or changes in landholding patterns, landlessness has increased and the new entrants to the rural labor force are increasingly ..."

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