Honduras signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1980, and ratified in it 1983. The Agrarian Reform law was revised in 1991 to give women equal rights to land. The Law for the Modernization and Development of the Agricultural Sector (LMA) recognizes women as producers. However, as these laws aim at modernization, globalization and privatization of the economy, conditions for application of the laws are limited or non-existent for the rural poor, who lack the necessary educational levels and experience in a market system. Women especially lack the means to obtain credit and investment capital.
