| Ejido, in Mexico, village lands communally held in the traditional Indian system of land tenure that combines communal ownership with individual use. |
| In 1992, a land legislation reform authorized sales and tenancy contracts on ejido land. |
| The economy in EZLN-controlled regions remains largely subsistence-level farming reminiscent of the traditional communal ejido, but without the meager state subsidies the ejidos got for a period of time. |
| Ejido commissioner Juan Gomez worries about the troops encamped in Banco Nuevo's remaining community forests. |
| Indigenous community land was covered by the San Andrés Accords and was managed democratically by peasant farmers and ejido members, among others. |
| Today, the ejido sector is composed of 28,058 communities with 3.5 million ejidatario households, 18 million individuals, and some 70 percent of the rural population. |
