ABSTRACT
In 1990, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) conducted a survey that provides an analysis useful in distinguishing among the different types of small landholders (members of ejidos—ejidatarios—and those with rights to communal land—comuneros). The purpose of the survey was to construct a typology that could help define differentiated public policies. In 1994, the Ministry of Agrarian Reform (MAR), and again ECLA, conducted another survey, adding other factors of socioeconomic nature, such as migration and a balance sheet on corn uses. In the same year, after the summer elections, MAR also conducted a public opinion survey about the government's programs. In the last two surveys the ejidos were drawn from the same sample so as to obtain a comparative perspective.
