The reserve army were the peasants, sitting out in the countryside with little land and not much other way of making a living.
Globally, the report says, watershed payments have rehabilitated 117 million hectares of countryside, a land area about as big as the entire country of South Africa.
'We urge Blaenau Gwent council to give full consideration to the devastating effect this development would have on Wales's unique countryside and common land, and to refuse the application.
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Despite Hong Kong's reputation as a landscape of concrete and glass, in fact, three-quarters of its land is countryside.
Much of China's countryside suffers from severe land degradation, the result of centuries of deforestation and poor land management.
The Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust aims to protect land, buildings and natural resources in the area.
The Countryside Agency has revealed what land in the South West will be open for access under the right to roam.
But Romania's economic boom has stuttered and for many citizens, especially in the countryside, this is no land of opportunity.
Over half the Russian people today subsist outside of a money-economy system, surviving by barter and by getting whatever food they can from relatives, friends and neighbors or from what they grow on patches of land in the countryside.
It would have a huge impact on crucial aspects of the economy, from the system of land ownership in the countryside to the financing of public services.
Yet those in the countryside can still only profit from the land, not own it outright.
Working in the city and living on one's own land far out in the countryside has always been a goal for many Americans.
In the countryside and in the cities, property and land disputes have become a leading cause of social unrest.
With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.
Unpaid wages are a common flashpoint for urban workers, as are arbitrary land grabs by the authorities in the countryside.
Nestled in the English countryside just six miles from Windsor Castle, on land still owned by the Crown Estate, successive generations of royal patronage have endowed Ascot with many of its unique traditions.
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Land reform might help ease tensions in the countryside, but the government does not have the cash to turn many of the landless rural poor into smallholders.
The council had designated the land under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, which gave priority to nature conservation over public access and recreation.
Though the hukou divide is widely resented, peasants have often been reluctant to give up their rural status for fear of losing their land, as well as the added benefit in the countryside of being able to have two children rather than one.
About 80, 000 city-bred types made their way into the countryside last year, though one local official says they rarely put much investment into the land, treating it more as a hobby and their children rarely follow.
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