Rural women and the neo-liberal model in Chile / Maria Soledad Lago -- Agricultural development, the economic crisis, and rural women in the Dominican Republic / Belkis Mones and Lydia Grant -- The social invisibility of women's work in Brazilian agriculture / Cheywa R. Spindel -- Mexican...

The main trends associated with the economic crisis, neoliberal restructuring, and the growth of rural poverty rates in Latin America include a continued diversification of rural household income-generating strategies, an increase in the number of household members seeking off-farm employment,...