To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.
The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
Not on my watch will we sell or transfer our public lands.
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by their very existence.
The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
This land is your land, this land is my land
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid.
This land is made for you and me.
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Each landless citizen may occupy and appropriate a small allotment of the National Domain free of charge.
His bill introduced in the House of Representatives. It did not pass.
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.
Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.