Access to Land and Territory: Inequalities and Challenges for Agricultural Workers and Indigenous Women in Mexico; Accès a la terre et au territoire: inégalités et défis pour les travailleurs agricoles et les femmes indigènes au Mexique; Acceso a la tierr

Abstract

The difficulty of unequal access to land for agricultural workers and indigenous women in Mexico is not a problem that can be understood by its own. It is a manifestation of a wider system of exclusion that relates aspects of gender, ethnicity and social class. Analysing in advance this inequality implies questioning the historical roots of agrarian policies and generating new perspectives that recognise the importance of women in the rural development and the sustainability of territories. In light of this scenario, it is necessary to build a legal and political framework that guarantees substantive equality in the access to land, recognising women as key actors in the transformation of the Mexican countryside. In an approach to achieving this objective, this work seeks to contribute to a critical and necessary debate on the historical inequalities that have defined land tenure in Mexico, with an emphasis on the specific challenges faced by agricultural workers and indigenous women. Therefore, it is of interest to reflect on how, through an inclusive and sensitive approach to structural inequalities, progress can be made towards the construction of a legal framework that promotes and guarantees true agrarian justice capable of the reconfiguration of power relationships around territory. © (2025), (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).