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| plateau | an area of high, flat land |
| peninsula | a strip of land that juts out into the ocean |
| irrigation | the watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers |
| sinkhole | a hole formed when limestone is dissolved, causing the land above to collapse |
| hacienda | a large Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or a cattle ranch |
| land redistribution | a policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none |
| ejido | farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides only enough for the needs of a family or a village |
| latifundio | a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company |
| cash crop | a farm crop grown for sale and profit |
| migrant worker | a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra help is needed to cultivate or harvest crops |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| maquiladora | a factory in Mexico along the United States border, that assembles goods for export |
