Situation of Rural Women in Peru What you need to know (Main indicators).

Report Series/País − 2017/10/02

Presidency in the native community

“In Peru, for rural women, the main way to access and have Presidency in the native community 52,3

effective rights to land is through inheritance or marriage. In Presidency in a peasant community

the first case, only the right of use is granted because it is
communal property and, in the second, the family grants Presidency in a peasant community

rights over certain lands or the communard woman begins to Plots conducted
50,38

enjoy of the lands that the father-in-law grants to his husband.

Plots conducted
Single women without children are not more likely to have
access to the right to land and will be protected by their father Communard agricultural producers
49,4
or another male member of their family. In case the woman es- Communard agricultural producers
tablishes her new home outside the community will not give
Agricultural producers owners
her any plot.
In any case, in families, these forms of access to land tenure Agricultural producers owners
47,6
are mechanisms that privilege men. Not only are they granted Agricultural producers
greater land extension, but also the best quality because of
Agricultural producers
their location and access to water resources, which is not the
case with the lands ceded to women” (Informe/País, 2017). 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 Rural Urban

Female Male
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