ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Enclosure is the movement to fence in fields in order to farm more efficiently, at the expense of poor peasants who relied on common fields for farming and pasture.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The more productive enclosed farms meant that fewer farmers were needed to work the same land, leaving many villagers without land and grazing rights. Many moved to the cities in search of work in the emerging factories of the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rise of capitalism and the concept of land as a commodity to be bought and sold led to the gradual demise of the open-field system. The open-field system was gradually replaced over several centuries by private ownership of land, especially after the 15th century in the process known as enclosure in England.

Detailed explanation-5: -Enclosure Movement. The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. Crop Rotation. the system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land.