ejido
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9.9
- noun
- /eɪˈhidoʊ/
- UK
- The public sector, including the ejidos, felt the shifting priorities of formerly neopopulist countries.
- ejido members
- ejido land
- ejidos and communities
Examples
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Agents of the Agrarian Reform Department took part in all the ejido's major decisions.
Academic text (2003) -
First, we dare not assume that ejidos "sold out" or completely dissolved communal lands held in trust.
Academic text (2008) -
Critics used this lack of benefit as a basis for calling the ejido a failure.
Academic text (2008) -
The project resulted in increased revenues at the ejido level and a high level of community participation.
Academic text (2003) -
The stated goal was to substantially increase the number of ejidos with their own forest businesses.
Academic text (2003) -
Where that alliance was strained, however, grassroots organizing among the forestry ejidos became possible.
Academic text (2003) -
In 1930, only 920,000 ha of forests were legally in the hands of ejidos and comunidades.
Academic text (2003) -
Five miles later, Highway I-9 bisected the ejido of Ernesto Cardenas de Cintalapa.
Fiction book (1999) -
La Victoria's ejidatarios, like those in other ejidos on semiarid rangelands, have chosen to bound and certify their entire domain.
Academic text (2008) -
The community members decided to plant trees on their ejido to improve the local environment.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ejido comes from Spanish for the land 'outside' a town, from the Latin word exitus meaning 'going out'. So an ejido became the community that shares and manages that outside land, which is why today it means a Mexican community that holds and cares for communal land.