Resumen

ESPINOSA CORTES, Luz María  y  DIEZ-URDANIVIA CORIA, Silvia. Notes on the Contributions of Women to the Food Security of Peasant Households. Nueva antropol [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.66, pp.12-31. ISSN 0185-0636.

This paper is about the relation between women and food security in the context of a peasant economy based on a sexual division of labor, in which unequal gender relations prevail. As a result of this situation, most of the weight of the rural economic crisis falls upon women, many of whom generate family incomes. However, women participation is not recognized or valued neither by their families nor by society unless they earn wages, which are often less than what men receive for similar work. Due to the fundamental role that women play in the health and nutrition of the family, it's necessary to search for solutions that help improve their standards of living. A possible alternative is the design of a project focused on self sufficiency and sustainable peasant agriculture, but it will be incomplete if it does not consider women integration as agricultural producers, land owners and recipients of credit and technology, public and private resources.

Palabras llave : gender; poverty; peasant economy; food security and social inequality.