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Facts about Sharecropping

Sharecropping

Sharecropping typically involves a relatively richer owner of the land and a poorer agricultural worker or farmer; although the reverse relationship, in which a poor landlord leases out to a rich tenant also exists.

Sharecropping

The typical form of sharecropping is generally seen as exploitative, particularly with large holdings of land where there is evident disparity of wealth between the parties.

Sharecropping

Types of tenant farming include sharecropping, some forms of peonage, and Mйtayage.

Sharecropping

Sharecropping agreements can be made mutually beneficial, as a form of tenant farming or "sharefarming" that has a variable rental payment, paid in arrears.

Sharecropping

Sharecropping can have more than a passing similarity to serfdom or indenture and it has therefore been seen as an issue of land reform in contexts such as the Mexican Revolution.

Sharecropping

The advantages of sharecropping include enabling access for women to arable land where ownership rights are vested only in men.

Sharecropping

The Metayage system (French mйtayage) is the cultivation of land for a proprietor by one who receives a proportion of the produce, as a kind of sharecropping.

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