Word: redistributionism
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The farm evictions--timed to coincide with Heroes Day, which commemorates those killed in the liberation war that brought Zimbabwe independence in 1980--are central to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land-reform program, which helped him win re-election last March in a poll marked by violence and allegations...
This redistribution to the workers is consistent with the economic notion of “sweat equity”—those who produce the product have more of a right to it than the middlemen who have take a large percentage of the sale price but add nothing...
If you found that fairly traded coffee tasted better, or if you value that payments are going directly to farmer cooperatives rather than middlemen, make sure to fill out a comment card or tell your dining hall manager. If you didn’t get a chance to smell the...
BRAZIL Farm Invasions The government faced a growing crisis over land redistribution after peasants occupied President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's family farm and that of a close business associate. Police arrested 16 leaders of the MST landless movement after a 600-strong invasion of a farm belonging to Cardoso's...
Before September 11, Afghanistan was a failed state run by a militia (the Taliban) and exploited by an international terror consortium. But the effect of the U.S.-aided victory over the Taliban in large parts of of the country has been more or less a reordering of the power balance...