51.   The land reform program, which seeks to transfer land from the government and very wealthy to landless peasants, has been plagued by delays.

52.   The Indian job system provides for quotas for tribespeople and landless peasants.

53.   The occupation of unproductive land by landless peasants is legitimate.

54.   The land is then redistributed to landless peasants.

55.   The militant outfit, claiming to represent landless peasants, had called for an election boycott and had threatened to disrupt voting.

56.   The Ranbir Sena has been accused of several such killings of low caste, landless peasants.

57.   They were protesting delays in a controversial government program to seize white-owned farms and hand them over to landless black peasants.

58.   They mobilised the landless peasants to wage struggles against the rural rich.

59.   Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso has personally taken charge of land reform by appointing a close aide to accelerate the process amid increasing violence by landless peasants.

60.   During the past several months there have been a number of land occupations by landless peasants who are demanding an urgent solution to the problem.