Peasant Households Strategies in the Andes and Potential Users of Climate Forecasts: El Niño of 1997-1998

This paper was presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association on July 30- August 2, 2000 in Tampa, FL.Production strategies pursued by households and individuals in a peasant community of the Bolivian Altiplano are shaped by access to resources, social networks and institutions, wealth, and the ability to develop urban rural linkages. In times of climatic stress such as the low rainfall of 1995, the household economic portfolio shifts to activities less vulnerable to climate. The ability to shift is conditioned by access to resources, social capital, stage in the life cycle and wealth. A typology developed to understand how strategies take shape during a drought is used to evaluate access to information during el Niño (1997-8) and impacts on potato production in 1998-99. The relationship between diversification and use of climate forecasts (local and modern) is evaluated. The study proposes that diversification and use of forecasts may go hand in hand, and should be considered in the profile of potential users

The Commons Reconsidered

This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries.The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform March 202

Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Characteristics and Importance to Climatic Uncertainty

This draft is dated February 25, 2002.This paper details the importance of indigenous knowledge systems in developing countries around the world. Farmers, communities, and households that live in risky environments, have developed intricate systems of diversification that help secure income and food consumption. An integral part of these systems are the knowledge systems that help households plan for future events and decrease uncertainty. Recently indigenous knowledge systems have been given more attention as their importance is addressed in development projects. Unfortunately, acknowledgment and understanding of how knowledge systems are used is still not a basic part of all research. This is especially important in the recent advancement of climate and weather forecasting. Scientific advancements can aid poor countries only if knowledge systems are accessed and understood. Also forecast techniques will not improve welfare if they do not first address what households, farmers, and communities need, want and lack

New farmer network groups and the university : a case study of Missouri's Green Hills Farm Project

January 1997."SR504 New 2/97/1M"--P. [4] of cover

Crisis socioambiental y cambio climático

En el terreno de las ciencias sociales el monopolio del objeto pobreza ha tenido entre sus consecuencias bipolares más relevantes la concentración en un tema de alta significación como problema social universal y la diversidad de aristas desde la que este es construido y evaluado, pero a la vez ello ha significado un estrechamiento del alcance de tales ciencias, por el abandono o subvaloración de otros objetos de mayor densidad teórica y radicalidad crítica (como desigualdades desarrollo, conflicto, estructuras clasistas, entre otros) en las que el pensamiento social de la región había construido una tradición y una mirada propia que pueden considerarse aportes a las ciencias sociales en general

Crisis socioambiental y cambio climático

En el terreno de las ciencias sociales el monopolio del objeto pobreza ha tenido entre sus consecuencias bipolares más relevantes la concentración en un tema de alta significación como problema social universal y la diversidad de aristas desde la que este es construido y evaluado, pero a la vez ello ha significado un estrechamiento del alcance de tales ciencias, por el abandono o subvaloración de otros objetos de mayor densidad teórica y radicalidad crítica (como desigualdades desarrollo, conflicto, estructuras clasistas, entre otros) en las que el pensamiento social de la región había construido una tradición y una mirada propia que pueden considerarse aportes a las ciencias sociales en general