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In the labor market deep transformations are taking place that demand a reformulation of the traditional concepts of work and employment. The impact of the market economy on rural economies is giving place to the restructuring of work relationships in the interior of the family units of production, with the woman’s growing and diversified participation in productive work. This article presents the changes that have occurred in the last fifteen years in the relationship of woman’s work in rural communities in the mountains of Peru.

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This study analyzes ongoing processes occurring in certain sectors of local food production, which are influenced by globalized and fluctuating markets that have rediscovered Andean foods. These small food producers are incorporating new technologies into agricultural practices, food production, and product commercialization. This research attempts to identify the economic, cultural and institutional factors that influence the adoption of new technologies by rural women.

Rural employment in the country is facing in recent years structural changes that have to do with the process of de-agrarization of the fi land, in the context of globalization and market economy penetration, in a world that registers an increasing demand for food. The occupational de-agrarization of rural areas in Peru registers a significant participation of women in non-agricultural remunerated tasks, in the growing agroindustrial activity located mainly in the coastal valleys. In this article we seek to identify the processes and ways in which the non-agrarian occupational diversification of rural women in the Motupe-Lambayeque valley has taken place, establishing the socio-cultural and economic conditions that drive women to sell their labor to non-agrarian production activities, facing challenges that have to do with socio-cultural restrictions on their productive capacity and econ...

Here we analyze female peasants participation in agricultural and food activities, their relationship and involvement in the market, protagonist role on food security strategies of small farmer communities in the south part of the Andes, which is one of the main food providers for the communities, in the context of world commerce and the economic boom of Andean food. This study was done with peasant communities, farming multiple crops, in the Andean valleys of Arequipa and Cusco.

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In the labor market deep transformations are taking place that demand a reformulation of the traditional concepts of work and employment. The impact of the market economy on rural economies is giving place to the restructuring of work relationships in the interior of the family units of production, with the woman’s growing and diversified participation in productive work. This article presents the changes that have occurred in the last fifteen years in the relationship of woman’s work in rural communities in the mountains of Peru.

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El estudio analiza los procesos que se desenvuelven en sectores de pequeñas productoras de alimentos, que inducidas por su relevante contacto con el mercado fluctuante y mundializado, que actualmente revalora los alimentos andinos, están in troduciendo prácticas tecnológicas nuevas en su manejo agrícola, en el procesamiento de productos y en su comercialización. Se busca identificar los factores económicos, culturales e institucionales que condicionan la adopción de innovaciones productivas por parte de la mujer campesina.

Rural employment in the country is facing in recent years structural changes that have to do with the process of de-agrarization of the fi land, in the context of globalization and market economy penetration, in a world that registers an increasing demand for food. The occupational de-agrarization of rural areas in Peru registers a significant participation of women in non-agricultural remunerated tasks, in the growing agroindustrial activity located mainly in the coastal valleys. In this article we seek to identify the processes and ways in which the non-agrarian occupational diversification of rural women in the Motupe-Lambayeque valley has taken place, establishing the socio-cultural and economic conditions that drive women to sell their labor to non-agrarian production activities, facing challenges that have to do with socio-cultural restrictions on their productive capacity and econ...