(a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
(a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
(n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
(n.) An agrarian law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case in India is slightly different as independence from the British in 1947 saw India undergo agrarian reforms and, although the situation is far from perfect , farmers have more control over their land and there is better recognition of farmers' rights.
(2) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(3) Food prices were obtained from the Institute of Agrarian Marketing; data on production costs, from the National Bank of Agricultural Development in Guatemala.
(4) The impacts are visible, although poverty reduction in a heavily agrarian and rural society remains a challenge.
(5) The first of these was EU enlargement and the question of how relatively underdeveloped agrarian economies such as Poland and Slovakia will be brought into the CAP.
(6) The Guardian view on elections in the Philippines: a leap into the unknown Read more Duterte also said he would pursue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas and as an olive branch would offer government roles to the Communist party, including its exiled founder – most likely the cabinet posts of environment and natural resources, agrarian reform, social welfare, and labour.
(7) It was practised on every continent and archipelago, from the agrarian revolution onwards.
(8) The agrarian reforms of the Mexican Revolution created communal parcels of land called ejidos, on which people could squat.
(9) Soon Jarosław disposed of his proxy and became prime minister himself, in coalition with the agrarian-populist Self Defence party and the nationalist-religious League of Polish Families, implementing a zealous programme of “decommunisation”.
(10) A 'worst case' scenario for the burden of fatal disease is taken as a poor agrarian society precariously dependent on starchy staples and a narrow range of other foods.
(11) Drastic modifications in agrarian space, with the reductions of primary forests, along with changes in rural production systems have led to the growth of salaried employment and also caused rural workers to move to the peripheral areas of cities.
(12) Then, the country was poor, agrarian, and had a high birth rate; infant mortality was high.
(13) The pattern of urbanism at Angkor was hardly unique: the Mayan cities that Pottier’s maps of Angkor reminded Fletcher of have long been recognised as low-density agrarian settlements.
(14) Its theatre of operations – the Sahel – features a perfect storm of sovereignty: deficient states, a young, economically frustrated population mired in poverty, nations with long histories of strife and the collapse of agrarian economies due to climate change.
(15) "Dilma's government has taken a step back on agrarian reform because she is in an alliance with conservatives," said national co-ordinator Marina dos Santos.
(16) The loggers take timber from wherever they can find it, including indigenous reserves and land allocated to peasant families as part of the government's agrarian reform programme.
(17) People have this misconception that these areas are desperately poor or overly agrarian – but some counties are more similar to Tier 4 or 5 cities, with lively manufacturing industries and substantial husbandry and farming operations.
(18) Chilean Miguel Altieri, professor of Agroecology at the University of Berkeley and member of Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology calls the movement a new agrarian revolution, which opposes the green revolution.
(19) In the long run, if we are at all serious about addressing environmental concerns and balancing different modern economic sectors – including the agrarian – in a labour-surplus economy, then remapping the interconnections between the rural and the urban will make it easier to achieve those objectives.
(20) The authors investigated the obesity incidence in connection with nutrition factors in 13 representative settlements of Industry-Agrarian Complex Burgas.
Whiteboy
Definition:
(n.) A favorite.
(a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.