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...

This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a significant predictor of household income, not...

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,...