Peasant Women’s Access to Land. A Historical Review of the Problem In the Northern Zone of Costa Rica

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This article has been elaborated based on the bibliographical revision performed as part of the assistant’s work in the project “Movilización de mujeres campesinas en la lucha por la recuperación de tierras en dos comunidades de Los Chiles, Alajuela”, which is inscribed in Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede de Occidente. It constitutes a work of socio-historical re-construction of the process of Costa Rican peasant women’s access to land and their ownership of it from the period of colonization of lands in the Northern Zone of the country, to the present day.During the presentation of the text, it will be possible to understand and identify those factors that have historically influenced the exclusion of women in the land adjudication process, such as the concentration of land in a few hands, an issue that has persisted over the years, showing the introduction of monocultures by transnationals as its most important variant.