ejido

m.

common land (history). (Mexican Spanish)

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ejido

► nombre masculino

1 common land

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SM common land

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masculino

1) (Hist) common

2) (en Méx) (sistema) system of communal or cooperative farming; (sociedad) cooperative; (terreno) land belonging to a cooperative

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masculino

1) (Hist) common

2) (en Méx) (sistema) system of communal or cooperative farming; (sociedad) cooperative; (terreno) land belonging to a cooperative

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ejido

masculine

A (Hist) common, area of common land

B (en Méx)

1 (sistema) system of communal or cooperative farming

2 (sociedad) cooperative

3 (terreno) land belonging to a cooperative

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ejido sustantivo masculino (en Méx) (sistema) system of communal or cooperative farming;
(sociedad) cooperative;
(terreno) land belonging to a cooperative

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ejido nm

1. Hist common land

2. Méx [institución] = system of cooperative land tenure

3. Méx [terreno] = piece of land farmed by a cooperative

4. Méx [sociedad] = farming cooperative

EJIDO

After the Mexican Revolution, the 1917 Constitution brought in land reform measures which established ejidos (government-owned farms run by a collective of farmers). This was actually a tradition dating back to pre-Columbian culture. The original implementation of the reform was far from thorough, but the huge land reform programme carried out under the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) meant that around half of the country's arable land fell within the ejido system, and Article 27 of the Constitution guaranteed that the land could not be sold. This remained the case until 1992, when the neoliberal policies of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari officially allowed ejido land to be sold.

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ejido

m Méx

traditional communal farming unit

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ejido nm

1) : common land

2) Mex : cooperative