When farmers leave the land to work in factories, call centres or almost anywhere else, their incomes and consumption almost always go up, lifting assorted development indicators.
Seeking a better life, millions of farmers have left the land to seek work in the cities.
After a laborious process of leasing land, seismic work, permits, drilling the wells, testing the wells, hooking the wells up to pipelines.
They gave peasants the right to own land and to work it for their own benefit rather than as part of the traditional feudal commune.
Mr Sumer argues that he needs as many sons as possible to work the land.
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Some workers never get to their economic promised land and have to work hard up to and through retirement.
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As a result of the engineers' work, land titles were definite, and settlers could develop the land without fear of dispossession.
The Housing Executive said it intended to use its land assembly powers to work with private developers to target investment towards urban areas.
The King-in-waiting may well bide his time - and it could be a long time - involved in land management and charitable work.
He is willing to pay enough to make the farmer rich beyond his wildest dreams, and will employ the farmer to work the land until the end of his days.
He drummed up private sector financial support to buy orange trees and in 2002 he launched the Winterveldt Citrus Project, a community initiative which enables small holders to make a living and become self-sufficient by training them how to work the land.
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Aggar dedicated much of his time last winter to getting fit for the World Championship selection trials and the hard work on land and on the water paid off with a place in the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in Munich.
As competition rises, Emerging Capital Partners will have to work harder to land the best deals.
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Rural households are feeling the pinch too, with children pulled out of school to work on family land.
And so a creation myth arose, of Pilgrim Fathers seeding a new land with their piety and work ethic.
Maybe 200m of the 800m who currently live on the land need to find new work in the towns.
Determined that her son would not work on the land, Burns' mother sent her son to the Ayrshire village of Kirkoswald.
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After all, hardly anyone really lives in the country any more and a mere fraction of the population work on the land.
Now construction has collapsed there's very little work on the land.
Think back 200 years, when 80% of the people had to work on the land to produce the surplus food to feed the other 20% who did everything that was not agriculture.
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At the same time, the United States will continue other efforts to address the problem of land mines, including our work to establish step-by-step negotiations toward a global ban in the Conference on Disarmament.
The company said it would look to replace common land and it wanted to work with the commoners throughout the development "to minimise any impact that the project may have on them and their livestock".
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Fourth is education, which is not only failing to prepare the rural poor for work off the land, but is also no longer equipping enough talented young graduates with the skills that have fuelled the services boom.
The hard work of these American athletes illustrates that our country fundamentally remains a land that welcomes those seeking opportunity and willing to work hard.
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He said discussions with landowners and their tenants would be held to work on establishing a land use policy for the island.
Now, she argues, the burden of evidence has shifted and it is up to the proponents of land deals to show that they work.
But Cox insists the recent work in his native land is not motivated by a desire to be seen to be in Scotland more often.
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"Well sites and pipeline right of ways are temporary construction projects on mostly private land that will be reclaimed after work is complete, " he said.
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