1.   Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants.

2.   Small peasant farmers, who own their own plots have often been compelled to sell land through poverty and debts.

3.   Small peasant holdings predominated in the uplands.

4.   They were predominantly small peasant economies, with scarcely any industry.

5.   Small peasant communes were grouped for administrative and judicial purposes into cantons or volosti.

6.   Small peasant producers, who make up the bulk of the population in most of Central America, are perhaps even more seriously affected.

7.   When war erupted in Cyprus, the island was mostly a collection of small peasant villages.