I know where about 3300 people own 140,000 square miles of good farmland. When poor landless farmers from outside try to set up a farm on this land, some are removed forcibly losing all the livestock, buildings and effort they put into the farms on this forbidden land. Some of these poor landless farmers are killed along with their families and the farms burned, sometimes with the farmer families inside the buildings.
What should be done? On the one hand the farmers are trespassing on privately owned land. On the other hand the farmers have no land of their own with which to feed their families.
Should the land be taken from the 3300 owners and distributed to the poor?
Should ownership rights be enforced and the poor landless farmers excluded?
Curious the views here. It would also be interesting to know the reasoning behind the answers.
What should be done? On the one hand the farmers are trespassing on privately owned land. On the other hand the farmers have no land of their own with which to feed their families.
Should the land be taken from the 3300 owners and distributed to the poor?
Should ownership rights be enforced and the poor landless farmers excluded?
Curious the views here. It would also be interesting to know the reasoning behind the answers.
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