The Gender Asset Gap: Land in Latin America

By C. D. Deere, M. León. 2003

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, background): “There is evidence that holding land jointly is common in many, but not all, places in the world (Doss et al., 2014; Kieran et al., 2015; Deere and Leon, 2003).”
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, positive): “This result deserves further research, but it is not inconsistent with data from Mexico which shows that women exhibit strong and persistent preferences for male versus female heirs (Deere and Leon 2003).”
Agriculture for Development: Toward a New Paradigm (2009, background): “Women are less likely than men to own land, and even when they do own land, their landholdings are smaller (Deere and León, 2003).”
Gender equity in fairtrade-organic coffee producer organizations: cases from Mesoamerica. (2010, background): “This concern parallels the argument that more women may benefit from mandatory provisions for the joint titling of land to couples that establish usufruct than from strictly neoliberal individual titling provisions that may act to constrain women’s usufruct rights (Deere and Leon, 2003; Hamilton, 20”
THE GENDER ASSET GAP: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? (2006, background): “In all countries included in these surveys, the farms owned by women are smaller than those owned by men, thus women’s share of land assets is even lower than their participation rate as property owners (Deere and León 2003: Table 5).”
Gender and the distribution of wealth in developing countries (2006, background): “Household surveys for eight Latin American countries revealed that the mean amount of land owned by women was always less than that of men although only in Chile and Paraguay is the gender difference statistically significant (Deere and León 2003: table 5).”
Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India (2015, background): “A second complication in this regard may arise due to measurement error as it is often difficult to obtain appropriate measures of female property rights due to the fact that women in many societies lack formal titles to property (Deere and Leon, 2003; Sweetman, 2008).”
Gender, assets, and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework: (2011, background): “Men accounted for a larger proportion of property owners and owned more land in Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Paraguay (Deere and Leon 2003), while men owned more assets than women in Ghana, Kenya, Northern Nigeria, Mexico, and urban Guatemala (see the survey of the literature documenting…”
Cities, Territories, and Inclusive Growth: Unraveling Urban–Rural Linkages in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico (2015, background): “There is a body of evidence that shows how gender gaps tend to be lower in the urban space compared to the rural (Baker, 2006; Deere & Leon, 2003).”
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, background): “This land titling process titled only individuals and excluded wives from the benefits of joint titling of land (Deere and León 2003).”
Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps (2013, background): “For example, Deere and Léon (2003) cite the example of the FEPP (Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progresso) in rural Ecuador, in which only 14 percent of the beneficiaries were female, and another program run by the Penny Foundation in Guatemala, in which only 1 percent of the beneficiaries were female.”