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...

Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a "residual" pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic growth through learning-by-doing and knowledge spillovers, patterns of...