Ejido reforms in Mexico: conceptual issues and potential outcomes

The evolving privatization of the ejido system in Mexico represents a challenge to standard economic models of common property regimes. These models tend to emphasize human interrelations while discounting the ecological conditions which form the environment for human interactions. A risk-spreading,...

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Published in:Land economics 1994-11, Vol.70 (4), p.448-465
Main Authors: Thompson, G.D. (The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.), Wilson, P.N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AGRARIAN REFORM
Agricultural development
Agricultural economics
Agricultural land
AGRICULTURAL POLICIES
Agricultural policy
AGRICULTURE COLLECTIVE
COLLECTIVE FARMING
COMPORTAMIENTO ECONOMICO
COMPORTEMENT ECONOMIQUE
Correlation analysis
Ecological modeling
ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR
ECONOMIC IMPACT
Economic models
EXPLOTACION AGRICOLA COLECTIVA
Herding
Irrigation
Joint ownership
Land
Land economics
Land management
MEXICO
MEXIQUE
MODELE
MODELOS
MODERNISATION
MODERNIZACION
MODERNIZATION
POLITICA AGRICOLA
POLITIQUE AGRICOLE
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
PRIVATIZATION
Property rights
PROPIEDAD PRIVADA
PROPRIETE PRIVEE
Rain
REFORMA AGRARIA
REFORME AGRAIRE
Reforms
Studies
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Summary:The evolving privatization of the ejido system in Mexico represents a challenge to standard economic models of common property regimes. These models tend to emphasize human interrelations while discounting the ecological conditions which form the environment for human interactions. A risk-spreading, safety-first model capturing interrelationships between nature and humans is developed to analyze the potential implications of Mexico's privatization efforts. Recognizing that the majority of ejido lands are communal, not parcelized, located primarily in arid areas, the model supports the prediction that privatization will occur and be most successful on irrigated, ejido lands with modern social and economic infrastructure.
ISSN:0023-7639
1543-8325
DOI:10.2307/3146640