Land Tenure and the Potato Famine
Land tenure is defined as the prevailing system that dictates how land is controlled an accessed. One example of land tenure is feudal land tenure, which is defined by two key relationships. First, the monarch gives lesser nobles a fiefdom—land and labor—with peasants. ... In a feudal land tenure, the peasant has no title to the land or any rights. ... On the land, the crops varied for the nobles and peasants. ... It enters through the leaves of the potato and destroys the crop.