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Land reform

Changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Land reform is the transfer of agricultural land ownership from large private landowners to small farmers and people without any landholdings. It involves the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership, land use, land economics, and land transfers. Land reform is a political process that involves the redistribution of wealth and political power that comes from owning large swathes of land.

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The public source identifies “Land reform” as changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Land, reform and Changing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Land reform” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.