concludes that this law has definitely destroyed the major landowners and simplified social structure of local peasantry since, from that time onwards, it comprised very few people landless people, a significant population who had the medium size estates and a symbolic number of wealthy and big ...
This development resulted in a tripling of government-owned lands (guantian 官田) between the end of the Southern Song and the early Ming, by which time the swamps had been completely transformed into fertile arable (Shiba 1988: 43, 185). According to my own research, the process of land ...
The girl representing all the new students gave us a speech on the school opening ceremony. 那个女孩代表所有新生在开学典礼上讲了话。 He represented himself as a wealthy man, but in fact he was as poor as a church mouse.声称自己是个健康的人而其实 representative n.代表 adj.典型的, 有代表...
The customary tenure systems tend to play a more important role in more land-abundant areas, and such areas have been exposed to sharp increases in the demand for land in recent years, particularly if land is officially owned by the state. The critical question is the extent to which the ...
However, providing land to the landless is viewed by many as a key means to reduce poverty and support rural livelihoods (Lipton 2009; Lawry et al. 2017; McKay 2018). The child health and nutrition impacts of providing privately owned land to landless individuals may differ from the impacts ...
Musician Petunia (Jennifer Ludlam) and daughters Polly and Patch are tiring of their lives as land yachting "gypsies of the motorway" in the first episode of this hyperactive children's fantasy drama written by Margaret Mahy. Their salvation could be a magic house owned by Crocodile Crosby — ...
Owned by the American Cinematheque, the Aero is a haven for cinephiles, screening contemporary independent films and classics ranging from David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago to Jacques Demy’s 1964 romantic musical masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Damien Chazelle’s favourite film). There are ...
Dunnottar Castle is now owned by the Pearson family who, after a restoration, have opened the castle to the public. Composed of 11 buildings of various styles and eras, you’ll be amazed by this visit. And the cherry on the cake, the view with the cliffs, the sea and the bay is ...
The main sources for determining plot boundaries were field markings, in conjunction with the memories of the neighbors whose farm plots border those owned by the households in question. Measuring tapes and ropes were used to measure the farm plots. While the initial cost of this registration was...
Typically, landowners are either farmers and ranchers who have owned the property for generations or very wealthy individuals, families, or businesses that can afford to buy tracts outright. Recently, however, an investment niche has developed that is designed to open up the tax benefits of conserv...