ejido
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- noun
- /eɪˈhidoʊ/
- UK
- The dominant presence of cattlemen and their powerful lobbying organization in Tantoyuca is not unrelated to the fact that few post-revolutionary land grants (ejidos) were made in the region.
- ejido land
Examples
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The ejido was strung out along a couple of miles of highway.
Fiction book (1999) -
By 1950, the ejido and comunidad share of forest land increased only slightly, to 23 percent (Rendón 1962).
Academic text (2003) -
The villages and most of the coastline between them make up an ejido, a communal land holding established by the Mexican government.
Academic text (1997) -
Although the 1992-1993 reforms to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution prohibited any future expansion of communal lands and allowed privatization of communal resources, few widespread privatization schemes have taken hold in the vast majority of ejidos.
Academic text (2008) -
The farmers of the ejido work together to cultivate their crops, sharing the land and its resources.
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In Mexico, an ejido allows local communities to benefit from shared agricultural land.
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The residents of the ejido hold regular meetings to discuss their farming practices and land management.
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Etymology
Ejido comes from Spanish for the land 'outside' a town, from the Latin word exitus meaning 'going out'. So an ejido is the shared piece of land outside town where people farm or graze animals, and today it names the communal fields used by a community in Mexico.