Definition of villagization in English:
villagization
(British villagisation)
nounˌvɪlɪdʒʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nˌvilijəˈzāSHən
mass noun1(in Africa and Asia) the concentration of the population in villages as opposed to scattered settlements.
Example sentencesExamples
- While villagization did bring some measure of welfare and social services to the countryside, it failed the production test decisively.
- In fact, this outside assistance may well have played a role in buffering the impact of the Tanzanian villagization.
- Meanwhile, the government instituted a program of villagization in the countryside, forcing peasant farmers to leave their isolated homesteads to live together in small overcrowded villages.
- At first, there was considerable resistance amongst the peasants, living mainly in isolated farms, to this ‘villagisation’ programme.
- 1.1 The transfer of land to the communal control of villagers.
(土地)村有化
Example sentencesExamples
- With villagization, household land use patterns changed dramatically, and the use of resources intensified in areas close to villages.
- But in those areas in which villagization did occur, it radically transformed household access to and use of resources.