Colombia: Only 26% of Rural Women Own the Land They Work

Mar 19, 2025
Via Campesina
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In the furrows of the earth, where life and hope germinate, Colombian peasant women have forged a path of struggle and resistance. Through the National Unitary Agricultural Trade Union Federation (Fensuagro), along with other rural Colombian organizations, we are protagonists in the construction of peasant and popular feminism, a feminism that is born from the land and strengthened by solidarity and collective struggle.

The peasant women who fuel change not only produce nearly 50% of the food in rural areas, but have also been guardians of native seeds, water, and ancestral knowledge. Their work is fundamental to food sovereignty, understood not only as the right to decide what to plant and how to feed their communities, but also as a tool of resistance against the agribusiness model that expels people from the countryside, especially women who bear the consequences of dispossession.