These ad hoc interventions may result in making the village even worse off (Ravaillon and van de Walle 2008) if illegal transactions develop as a result of prohibitions offering less favorable contract terms to vulnerable households that must sell after adverse shocks. As a consequence of emergency sales, wealthier households will accumulate land. New landlord–tenant relations may thus develop, with land concentration and the hiring of agricultural labor becoming re-emerging issues, which will indicate new dynamics in rural labor markets.