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Under Árbenz, Guatemala implemented a land reform program in 1952 that gave landless farmworkers their own undeveloped plots.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Many Nama are landless and live in informal settlements with inadequate access to water and electricity, or in remote areas, far from schools and hospitals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

The casino disagreement comes as landless tribes and tribes on reservations make strides toward reclaiming and co-managing stolen territory in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

Not all alleged witches were poor and landless, however, and sometimes hunts served to dispossess them.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

It had never belonged to us, we had never prospered to the extent where we could buy, and Nathan, himself the son of a landless man, had inherited nothing.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya