Peasant movement

The peasant movements in the modern age are social and political movements of the rural population for social reform. Mostly it was the peasant movement for land reforms, which she was part of the land reform movement. The peasant movement had particularly where large inlet where the ownership of land equal ( " unjust" ) was distributed or where the peasant population had a large proportion of the population. When the peasant movement must distinguish between the actual political peasant movement (see Peasant Party ) and the other social aspirations, which aimed at improving rural living conditions.

The largest currently existing association of peasant movements is founded Via Campesina in 1993. She has coined the concept of food sovereignty.