This Special Section of Women’s Studies International Forum, titled Latin American women’s farm land and communal forests, was guest edited by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry’s (FTA) former focal point Purabi Bose.

The full list of articles is as follows:

• Land tenure and forest rights of rural and indigenous women in Latin America: Empirical evidence
• Gender empowerment in the Gran Chaco
• The gender dynamics of conditional cash transfers and smallholder farming in Calakmul, Mexico
• Amazon entrepreneurs: Women’s economic empowerment and the potential for more sustainable land use practices
• Challenges for women’s participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua’s in digenous territories
• Gender, local governance and non timber forest products. The use and management of Satureja macrostema in Oaxaca’s central valleys, Mexico
• Women’s rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America