| On the field of agriculture it promotes, as the Rome of old, the latifundia ownership with all its sequences. |
| In many cases it also promotes, as in ancient Rome, the latifundia ownership with all its results. |
| The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers. |
| The decrease of the rural working population is marked also in England where, as well known, latifundia property reigns supreme. |
| Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia. |
| The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land. |
