Migrant women's participation in agricultural activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon frontier is examined using 1990 household survey data. A recursive model is developed to test women's participation in agriculture as a function of household's land use and land area cleared (deforested), women's...

The Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, the principal region of colonization of migrants in Ecuador since the 1970's, has been experiencing major changes in recent years, including a rapidly growing population, fragmentation of agricultural plots, changes in land use, and increasing off-farm employment,...