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  • As tourism grows, links with many different types of 'the poor' are made, including the hiring of locals as staff, bringing in neighboring communities, renting from or building with land-holders, buying from producers of food, fuel and other suppliers, encouraging operators of micro tourism businesses, such as craft-makers, and indeed the general betterment of infrastructure (roads) and resources (water).

    Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

  • As tourism grows, links with many different types of 'the poor' are made, including the hiring of locals as staff, bringing in neighboring communities, renting from or building with land-holders, buying from producers of food, fuel and other suppliers, encouraging operators of micro tourism businesses, such as craft-makers, and indeed the general betterment of infrastructure (roads) and resources (water).

    Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

  • As tourism grows, links with many different types of 'the poor' are made, including the hiring of locals as staff, bringing in neighboring communities, renting from or building with land-holders, buying from producers of food, fuel and other suppliers, encouraging operators of micro tourism businesses, such as craft-makers, and indeed the general betterment of infrastructure (roads) and resources (water).

    Richard Bangs: Why Visit Southern Sudan, Africa's Newest Nation? Richard Bangs 2011

  • Cheapening land will drive land-holders and banks into bankruptcy, but a sensible government should be able to balance this loss against that current one of the unemployment created by our system of land tenure, which is farworse in what it does for most of the perople.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Jeff Sharlet, Author, THE FAMILY, on Rob Kall Radio Tonight 2009

  • Much of the money will go to small land-holders which will enable them to invest in machinery and pesticides, according to sources in the agriculture ministry.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • It was the largest, richest and most thickly settled provinces in all the Westermarck, and only there was there an extensive, comparatively, class of titled land-holders.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • It was the largest, richest and most thickly settled provinces in all the Westermarck, and only there was there an extensive, comparatively, class of titled land-holders.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Syracusans who were called “land-holders,” 1133 after they had been driven into exile by the common people and by their own slaves, who were called

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • To do this, he must gain the favour of the chief land-holders, the nobility of the country; and these were his vowed enemies — he must conciliate them by abandoning his favourite scheme of equalization; he must confirm them in their manorial rights; he must sell his cherished plans for the permanent good of his country, for temporary relief.

    The Last Man 2003

  • All land-holders would operate under a long-term leasehold system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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