Sentences with phrase «also landless»

A majority of the poor are also landless.

They were also landless agricultural labourers and tanners.

Not exact matches

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.

Most modern - day cattle are raised on «landless systems,» also known as feedlots, where the cattle have little space, no access to pastures, and are fed a grain - based diet.