Who makes agricultural decisions? Women landowners in Ecuador.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22231/asyd.v11i3.94Keywords:
gender, farm management, land ownershipAbstract
This study investigates whether women landowners
participate in the agricultural decisions about their plots.
Based on a national sample from Ecuador, the analysis shows
that the large majority of women owners participate actively
in the conduction of their plots, whether they are their
property individually or jointly with their couple. It also
reveals that there are differences in the level of participation
of women, depending on their marital status (whether they
are married or united, in comparison to heads of households
who are single, separated, divorced or widows) and the form
of property. Also, their participation varies depending on
the agricultural decision under consideration. In any case,
our analysis leads to an outstanding conclusion: the census
data provide a distorted vision of family agriculture because
they do not take into account that agricultural decisions
are frequently made by the couple, and they lead to an
underestimation of the participation of women married/
united as agricultural producers.
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