Minifundium

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As Minifundium (plural minifundia ) in are Latin America and Southeast agricultural small and micro enterprises referred to, which are managed by a family of plots of one to a few hectare exclusively for the internal power supply ( Subsistenzwirtschaft ). The somewhat larger mini-funds are also worked on at harvest time by seasonal workers from outside the family, who receive a low wage for this, often only in the form of barter products.

In Latin America, especially in the Andean highlands of Bolivia , Peru and Ecuador as well as in the young cleared areas of the Amazon lowlands, mini-fundies are the mainstay of many families who are defined in statistics as "living below the poverty line " or similar due to a lack of economic surpluses. After the end of the colonial period or in national laws, they were often given to indigenous or impoverished parts of the population as part of a land reform (e.g. in Bolivia in 1953) in order to balance out the land ownership. In Brazil, for example, the minifundia along the Transamazônica Road also serve to reduce regional disparities in the population distribution, as settlers from the southern states of Brazil can often receive a piece of land free of charge in the Amazon .

The opposite, i.e. large-scale agricultural operations, are called latifundia .