19世纪上半期，在经济衰退、政权软弱的特定条件下，墨西哥大庄园制被削弱，产生了以村社和租佃农为形式的小农制。19世纪晚期，随着政权巩固和出口经济发展，大庄园制复兴，社会矛盾激化，导致了1910年的革命。革命期间和革命后的土地改革，开启了墨西哥私人地产和村社共存的农业发展“双峰战略”。1940年后，政府忽视村社发展。90年代后，政府试图实行村社土地私有化措施。但在全球化的时代，小农经济仍具有独特的优越性，不可能完全消亡。
In the early 1800s，economic stagnation and political power decline weakened the hacienda system，and a small peasant system based on ejido and land tenure was established in Mexican agriculture. With the consolidation of political power and the development of economy led by the export of raw materials in late 1800s，the hacienda system revived，with the result of intensification of social contradiction and explosion of a great revolution in 1910. The land reform during and after the revolution led to the bi-modal strategy of agricultural development，based on the co-existing of private land holding and ejido. The government paid less attention to the development of ejido after 1940. In 1990s，the Mexican government even tried to carry out measures to privatize the land owned by ejidos. However，even in the era of globalization，small peasant system still has its own advantage and will not disappear.
