Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.

It also found that nearly half of all rural families are landless.

Ethnic or religious minorities comprise a large proportion of the rural landless.

The project will generate substantial wage employment which will benefit landless women, in particular.

The Bangladesh Kishani Sabha is an organization of women farmers that works with landless women.

The rural landless and marginal farmers constitute the main elements of rural poverty in Myanmar.

Thirty per cent of rural landless households taking loans have subsequently been able to buy land.

Landless labourers living outside the seam zone are not eligible for permits and lack alternative sources of income.

In 1897, 61.2 of the rural population had been landless by 1936, that percentage had been reduced to 18 .

The process of enclosure created a landless working class that provided the labor required in the new industries developing in the north of England.

The Landless Women's Association, also in Bangladesh, is the women's counterpart to the Krishok (Male Peasant) Federation, which organized in 1992 by occupying lands.

IFAD implemented a project in the Gambia from 1997 to 2004, which focused on improving rice production for impoverished households, mainly those of poor landless women.

With that in mind, the Government had promoted the distribution of State land to landless tenants, easy availability of credit, and relief to drought affected areas.

The Oxfam report provides several examples of producers who have acquired land without the consent of the people who live on it, turning farmers into landless laborers.

The governments of Germany and Britain will finance Namibia's land reform process, as Namibia plans to start expropriating land from white farmers to resettle landless black Namibians.

Bangladesh initiated a project, ABASHAN (poverty alleviation and rehabilitation), for assetless people, to rehabilitate landless poor families through self employment and to promote the economic advancement of women.

Farmers who needed to buy seeds for the next harvest season had to approach money lenders, since many of them, being landless, had no collateral or third party guarantees.

Urban settlements are being expanded in order to provide land for landless families and local authority capacity is being increased through the levying of user charges, property taxes and betterment taxes.

Some local non governmental organizations, such as the Grameen Bank, had focused on providing loans to landless and destitute village women, who had successfully set up cottage industries or small businesses.

He stated further that where ideal villages had been set up by allocating government land to poor landless families, such land was jointly registered in the name of the husband and wife.

Despite the agrarian reform programmes undertaken in some countries, agriculture is still dominated by small and fragmented holdings, and the problems of marginal and landless farmers remain serious in many of them.

As in other regions of the world like Brazil and Bolivia, where land inequalities are glaring, occupation of unused land is often the only option for the landless, and women are generally at

Bangladesh had concentrated its efforts on setting up small labour intensive industries in rural areas and encouraging both the private and public sector to provide credits on very easy terms to landless and marginal farmers.

UNIFEM activities should ensure that peasant women apos s priorities are integrated into Agenda 21 and that indigenous, landless and small landholding women farmers participate in decisions on priorities and modalities for implementation of Agenda 21.

Bangladesh Integrated Aquaculture 1.9 To provide 1,000 landless farmers and smallholders in two of the poorest districts with the technology and credit financing needed to enter into fish farming based on the production of high protein duckweed.

Further, a Guam official noted that the Department of the Interior had determined that the Chamorro Land Trust provision would be consistent with the federal policy to quot prevent indigenous minorities from becoming landless and impoverished quot . 17

Further, a Guam official noted that the Department of the Interior had determined that the Chamorro Land Trust provision would be consistent with the federal policy to quot prevent indigenous minorities from becoming landless and impoverished quot . 11

It is estimated that about half of the world's hungry people are from smallholder farming communities, another 20 per cent are rural landless, and about 10 per cent live in communities whose livelihoods depend on herding, fishing or forest resources.

The goal of the organization is to facilitate the process of empowerment of partner communities small and marginal farmers, the landless, and deprived women and children to enable them to take action independently and effectively to secure their long term well being.

Land owning refugees were the least in need of assistance, and with few facilities in the area, they were not strongly relying on UNRWA health and education services. However, it is possible that a new poor category will emerge, particularly among landless labourers.

Most landless farmers find it difficult to switch to different crops, being caught up as they are in the illegal opium denominated market, which forces them to live at the mercy of the drug traffickers, who provide them with access to credit and market outlets.

This will entail expenditures in basic infrastructures and human resources development, particularly basic skill formation, but it holds out the promise of absorbing the poor farmers and the landless poor, raising their incomes and contributing to economic growth and relieving the pressure on fragile land.

A project in Bangladesh will provide credit and technical support for 1,000 landless and other poor farmers (30 per cent of them women) to enable them to engage in fish farming integrated with the intensive culture of duckweed as a low cost feed source.

It is no surprise that the poor lose when their interests conflict with those of the rich and powerful. The Oxfam report provides several examples of producers who have acquired land without the consent of the people who live on it, turning farmers into landless laborers.

The provisions of the new legislation have abolished discriminations against reinstating women as landless farmers, since granting an agricultural lot in the past exclusively concerned married or unmarried male farmers, who could sell the lot that had been granted to them when married, without the consent of their spouse.

Moreover some organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP), have implemented projects in developing countries in which reclaimed land has been allocated to women, and have targeted projects to benefit marginal and landless women. 7

Three fourths of the 1.2 billion people living on less than 1 a day live and work in rural areas. About half of the world's hungry people are from smallholder farming communities, another 20 per cent are rural landless and about 10 per cent live in communities whose livelihoods depend on herding, fishing or forest resources.