ejido
Americannoun
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ejidos
plural
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Etymology
Origin of ejido
1885–90; < Mexican Spanish; Spanish: common fields (immediately outside a village) < Latin exitus exit 1
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“Who are the people? Five people? Twenty people? The oldest person in town? One thousand people? The ejido commissioner?”
From The Verge ● Feb. 12, 2022
The complications with the Wellses’ home stem from the fact that the property was part of an ejido, a plot of communally owned land once used for agriculture.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2019
In 1973, the Mexican government designated 25,000 acres around Tulum as an ejido or collective farm, under a policy to provide land for impoverished peasants and encourage settlement in unpopulated areas.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017
The root of the problem is the ejido system of land reform, enshrined in Mexico's constitution of 1917.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the controversial ejido collectives.
From Time Magazine Archive
A big part of the Jaguar Alliance’s conservation work has been orchestrating deals between the government and local farming communities called ejidos.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
All have been found to come from ejidos, unfenced community lands in Mexico, or from larger private Mexican ranches.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
The newspaper printed that he also attacked the country's ejidos, a system of government-owned farm cooperatives, as "inefficient" and "existing solely for political purposes."
From Time Magazine Archive
One reason is Mexico's overenthusiastic land reform, whereby most of the big haciendas have been atomized into thousands of tiny, four-to twelve-acre ejidos and given to peasants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the revolution, governments have parceled out some 125 million acres to 2,700,000 families and established 25,000 ejidos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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