Gender, land, and water: From reform to counter-reform in Latin America

Carmen Diana Deere () and Magdalena Leon

Agriculture and Human Values, 1998, vol. 15, issue 4, 375-386

Abstract: Rural women did not fare very well inthe land reforms carried out during the Latin American“reformist period” of the 1960s and 1970s, with womenbeing under-represented among the beneficiaries. It isargued that women have been excluded from access toand control over water for similar reasons that theywere excluded from access to land during thesereforms. The paper also investigates the extent towhich women have gained or lost access to land duringthe “counter-reforms” of the 1980s and 1990s. Underthe neo-liberal agenda, production cooperatives aswell as communal access to land have largely beenundermined in favor of privatization and theindividual parcelization of collectives. Significantland titling efforts are also being carried outthroughout the region to promote the development of avigorous land market. This latter period has also beencharacterized by the growth of the feminist movementthroughout Latin America and a growing commitment bystates to gender equity. The paper reviews the extentto which rural women‘s access to land and, thus, waterhas potentially been enhanced by recent changes inagrarian and legal codes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Keywords: Cooperatives; Gender and land; Land markets; Land reform; Latin American rural women; Neo-liberal restructuring; Privatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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