Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

Gender and development fact sheets

Approximately 60 million rural women in Latin America work more than 12 hours a day to ensure the subsistence of their families. Nevertheless, these women's access to resources is not guaranteed. Although reliable, sex-disaggregated data on land tenure are not available, various surveys and studies report that men and women do not enjoy equal access to land resources.

This fact sheet, also available in French and Spanish, examines the legal, cultural and institutional limitations which affect women's access to land in Latin America.

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