Changing who owns farmland and on what terms, whether by breaking up large estates, redistributing land to the people who work it, or converting private holdings into collective or state farms. The pattern runs from the Irish Land Acts beginning in 1870, through the wave of redistribution across newly independent Eastern and Central European states after the First World War, to the Homestead Act's distribution of the American public domain and, at the other end of the spectrum, the Soviet Union's forced collectivization of individual peasant holdings into state-run collectives. Postwar land reform in occupied Japan is one of the field's standard examples of reform credited with raising both agricultural output and rural purchasing power. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Soviet collectivization is land reform's coercive extreme: individual holdings forced into state-run collectives
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The Homestead Act's distribution of the American public domain is a standard land reform example
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India's post-independence land reform is a national instance of the general land reform concept.
Mexico's land reform, chiefly through the ejido system, is a national instance of the general land reform concept.
Zimbabwe's fast track land reform program is a national instance of the general land reform concept.
Land tenure and its reform are core rural sociology subjects
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Land tenure and its reform are core rural sociology subjects
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The Stolypin reform of 1906 to 1917 let Russian peasants leave the commune and own individual land plots, an explicit redistribution of land ownership.
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Wikimedia FoundationLead section; Historical examples section
Land reform involves the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership, land use, land economics, and land transfers.
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Land reform (also known as agrarian reform) involves the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership
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An early example of land reform was the Irish Land Acts of 1870-1909.
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Changing who owns farmland and on what terms, whether by breaking up large estates, redistributing land to the people who work it, or converting private holdings into collective or state farms.
In Discipline: Rural Development, Lead paragraph
Land reform (also known as agrarian reform) refers to the process of changing who owns agricultural land and who has the right to use these lands.
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