ejidos
- plural of ejido.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Landowner Cedillo favored small, privately-owned individual farms, objected to the communal ejidos set up by Cardenas.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
