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  • Landless
  • The condition of being without equitable access to, and use of rural or urban land with secure tenure as needed to fulfill one or more human needs and/or human rights.

    A person or group living in such a condition (i.e., landlessness) due to any single, or combination of means and factors, including but not limited to:
    Discrimination;
    Dispossession;
    Displacement, including forced eviction;
    Denial (of use, access, etc.);
    Scarcity of land;
    Insufficient capability;
    Damage or destruction of land and/or means of access.”